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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