The Chicoasén Dam (officially the Central Hidroeléctrica Manuel Moreno Torres, for Manuel Moreno Torres [es]) is an embankment dam and hydroelectric power station on the Grijalva River near Chicoasén in Chiapas, Mexico.
Torres was Comisión Federal de Electricidad's (the dam's owner) Director General in the later 1950s.
Since then, the hydroelectric power station is the largest in Mexico.
[1] The dam was designed in the early 1970s and constructed between 1974 and 1980 under topographical and geological constraints.
[2] It withholds a reservoir of 1,613,000,000 m3 (1,307,680 acre⋅ft) and lies at the head of a 52,600 km2 (20,309 sq mi) catchment area.