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The Afobaka Dam is an embankment dam with a main gravity dam section on the Suriname River near Afobaka in Brokopondo District of Suriname. The primary purpose of the dam is to generate hydroelectric power and it supports a 180 MW power station. In 1958, Suriname Aluminum Company LLC (Suralco ), a subsidiary of Alcoa, gained an agreement with ...
The dam spanning the river is 54 m (177 ft) tall, and is built near the small town of Afobaka. Contrary to the reservoir's long official name, it was quickly rechristened Brokopondomeer by Dutch-speaking locals, after the town of Brokopondo 3 km (2 mi) further downstream from where the dam was constructed.
Just before the transition of the Upper to the Lower Suriname River is the Brokopondo Reservoir, which was constructed by the closure of the Afobaka Dam on February 1, 1964, for energy generation for the production of aluminium and aluminium oxide. [1] [2]
The Suriname River (Dutch: Surinamerivier) is 480 kilometres (300 mi) long and flows through the country of Suriname. Its sources are located in the Guiana Highlands on the border between the Wilhelmina Mountains and the Eilerts de Haan Mountains (where it is known as the Gran Rio ). [ 1 ]
Afobaka is a village in the Brokopondo District of Suriname. Between 1960 and 1964, the 1913 meter-long Afobaka Dam was built on the Suriname River , creating the Brokopondo Reservoir . [ 1 ] The Afobaka Airstrip is nearby.
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Category: Dams in Suriname. 2 languages. ... Afobaka Dam; G. Gran Olo hydroelectric power plant This page was last edited on 15 August 2019, at 04:06 (UTC) ...