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Wonders of the Modern World – Itaipu Dam


00:00:01located on the border of Brazil and

00:00:03Paraguay the eat a food dam is five

00:00:05miles wide and spans the Parana River

00:00:07during the course of construction

00:00:10workers actually had to shift the course

00:00:12of the seventh largest river in the

00:00:14world its main dance stands at sixty

00:00:17five stories high it took 18 years and

00:00:2018 billion dollars to build it was

00:00:23completed in 1991 and has received more

00:00:26than 9 million visitors since it has 18

00:00:29hydroelectric generators and each

00:00:32turbine is hit with 160 tons of water

00:00:35per second

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