Hydroelectric Itaipu DAM: how it's work

a hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
The name "Itaipu" was taken from an isle that existed near the construction site.
Itaipu means "the sounding stone".
The Itaipu Dam's hydroelectric power plant produced the second most electricity of any in the world as of 2020
The installed generation capacity of the plant is 14 GW, with 20 generating units providing 700 MW each with a hydraulic design head of 118 metres (387 ft).
Impounds Paraná River
Height 196 m (643 ft)
Length 7,919 m (25,981 ft)
Dam volume 12,300,000 m3 (430,000,000 cu ft)
Spillway capacity 62,200 m3/s (2,200,000 cu ft/s)
The maximum flow of Itaipu's fourteen segmented spillways is 62.2 thousand cubic metres per second (2.20×106 cu ft/s), into three skislope formed canals. It is equivalent to 40 times the average flow of the nearby natural Iguaçu Falls.

details source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaipu_Dam
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