The La Viña Dam, officially known as the Antonio Medina Allende Dam, is an

arch dam An arch dam is a concrete dam that is curved upstream in plan. The arch dam is designed so that the force of the water against it, known as hydrostatic pressure, presses against the arch, causing the arch to straighten slightly and strengthen ...

on the Los Sauces River in

San Alberto Department San Alberto Department is a department of Córdoba Province, Argentina. It is composed by many municipalities and communes. Its main industry is tourism and it is visited by many people each summer. San Alberto includes cities and towns as Mina ...

of Córdoba Province,

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

. Construction on the dam began in 1938 and it was completed in 1944. The power station was later connected to the grid on 28 February 1959. Aside from generating

hydroelectric Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined and ...

power, water stored by the dam is used to irrigate around of farmland.

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