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The El Cajón Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Río Grande de Santiago in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Construction began in 2003 and was completed in June 2007. It cost US$800 million to build. It is 640 m (2,100 ft) long and is 178 m (584 ft) high.
Watch Extreme Engineering · Season 3 Episode 2 · The El Cajon Dam free. The dam, which is the largest ongoing construction project in Latin America, is designed to rise 186 meters above the Rio Grande de Santiago river in Mexico.
Constructing El Cajon Dam on the Rio Grande de Santiago in Mexico.
26 paź 2005 · Mexico needs energy to fuel it's growing economy and has one of the largest dam building programs in the world, and the biggest of these is the El Cajon Dam. It will be the highest rock-filled dam in the world, but construction is up against a deadline and they're running out of time.
15 sie 2014 · El Cajon hydro power dam is on the Santiago river in the Mexican state of Nayarit. It is located 80km east of Tepic City, 60km upstream of the existing Aguamilpa project. Construction began in 2003 and was completed in June 2007, at a cost of US$800M.
6 paź 2009 · La Yesca dam, Mexico. Located on the Santiago river, 62km upstream of the El Cajon project (discussed later), on the border of Jalisco and Nayarit, the 220m high La Yesca CFRD is being developed by Mexico’s Comision Federal de Electricidad as part of a 750MW hydroelectric project.
23 sie 2007 · Behaviour analysis at El Cajon dam. J D Aleman Velasquez and S Villegas Lesso describe the general characteristics of Mexico's El Cajon project and present an analysis of its behaviour during construction and after first filling
