Trị An is a

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dam and lake on the

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in Vĩnh Cửu, Đồng Nai,

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. The power plant has an installed electric capacity of 400 MW and produces around 1.76 TWh of electricity per year. The plant is operated by Trị An Hydropower Company, a subsidiary of

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. The dam was built in 1984–1986 with the assistance of the

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. The power plant became operational in 1988. The dam forms a man-made

reservoir lake A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation. Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...

known as Trị An Lake. La Ngà village on the La Ngà River was created as a result of population displacement.Vietnam Economic Times - Volume 102 - Page 10 Viện kinh tế thế giới (Vietnam) "The "village" of La Nga was only established when Tri An lake was created for a hydro-power plant in 1986. At first it was just a gathering of a few homeless people from various places and backgrounds who had one thing in common: land ..." The dam appears on the 5000

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note released in 1993.

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