Macagua Dam

The Macagua Dam, officially known as Antonio José de Sucre, is an embankment dam with concrete gravity sections on the Caroní River in Ciudad Guayana, Bolívar State, Venezuela.

The dam's main purpose is hydroelectric power generation and it was later named after Antonio José de Sucre.

[1] The dam supplies water to three power stations with a generation capacity of 3,167.5 megawatts (4,247,700 hp).

Currently, Macagua I is undergoing a refurbishment in order to increase the capacity of each generator from 64 MW to 79.5 megawatts (106,600 hp).

Macagua II began operation in 1996 and was inaugurated in January 1997.

Macagua Dam (bottom left).