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Word: anchicaya (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will begin to rise at Timba, which in 1962 will begin to generate 60,000 kw. of power and curb the yearly floods that cover a quarter of the valley's million acres. Transmission lines will go up to tie the dams and a newly completed plant at Anchicaya (begun before C.V.C. was conceived) to power users. Work will start in 1959 on the system's biggest dam at Sal-vajina. Other projects: flood channels, levees, irrigation ditches, and enough steam plants to bring generating capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Go-Ahead for C.V.C. | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

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