The Monción Dam is an earth-fill

embankment dam An embankment dam is a large artificial dam. It is typically created by the placement and compaction of a complex semi-plastic mound of various compositions of soil or rock. It has a semi-pervious waterproof natural covering for its surface and ...

on the Mao River near

Monción Monción is one of the 3 municipalities of the province in Santiago Rodríguez Province, Santiago Rodriguez, Dominican Republic. Previously it was called Guaraguanó, a name from the Taíno, but in 1898, the President of the Republic at that time ...

Santiago Rodríguez Province Santiago Rodríguez () is a province in the northwest region of the Dominican Republic. It was split from Monte Cristi in 1948. The Santiago Rodríguez province has the Monte Cristi and Valverde provinces to the north, the Santiago province to ...

of the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ...

. At tall, it is the highest dam in the country and the Caribbean. The purpose of the dam is to produce

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 and supply water for irrigation. The dam's power station is located downstream and contains two 26 MW

Francis turbine The Francis turbine is a type of water turbine. It is an inward-flow reaction turbine that combines radial and axial flow concepts. Francis turbines are the most common water turbine in use today, and can achieve over 95% efficiency. The proces ...

-generators for an installed capacity of 52 MW. The dam was completed and began filling its reservoir on 22 September 2001. Its power station was commissioned on 27 April 2002.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moncion Dam Dams in the Dominican Republic Hydroelectric power stations in the Dominican Republic Dams completed in 2001 Energy infrastructure completed in 2002 Earth-filled dams Santiago Rodríguez Province 2002 establishments in the Dominican Republic

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