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Porto Primavera Reservoir, Brazil

Brazil’s Porto Primavera Dam sits on the Paraná River, 28 kilometers (17 miles) upstream from the confluence of the Paranapanema and Paraná Rivers. Constructed to provide hydroelectricity, this dam created the Porto Primavera Reservoir


NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data provided by the University of Maryland’s Global Land Cover Facility. Caption by Michon Scott based on information from Lars Anderson, UC Davis.

Published April 27, 2008
Data acquired March 14, 1987 - May 12, 2000

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 7 > ETM+