On November 5, 1982, the 14 gates of the Itaipú Hydroelectric Plant, weighing about 300 tons, were opened and the trapped water was released from the Parana River.
It was the symbolic inauguration by then presidents Alfredo Stroessner (Paraguay) and João Baptista Figueiredo (Brazil).
40 years have passed since this representative event in the “life” of the hydropower plant, considered one of the wonders of modern technology on our planet.
To build this. . .
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