The Jatobá Hydroelectric Power Plant () is a planned hydroelectric power plant and dam on the
Tapajós river in the state of
Pará
Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian st ...
, Brazil.
As of 2017 the project was suspended.
Location
The Jatobá Hydroelectric Power Plant will be built on the Tapajós river in the state of Pará, the second largest hydroelectric plant in the state.
The reservoir will cover .
The plant and reservoir will affect the municipalities of
Itaituba
Itaituba is a city and municipality located in the state of Pará, Brazil, and one of the most important socioeconomic centers in the western region of the State.
Location
Itaituba is the fifteenth largest city (by population) in the State of ...
and
Jacareacanga.
The dam will be just upstream from the
Sawré Muybu Indigenous Territory
The Sawré Muybu Indigenous Territory (), also called the Daje Kapap Eipi, is an Indigenous territory (Brazil), indigenous territory of Munduruku people in the state of Pará, Brazil.
It includes land that is sacred to the Mundurukus.
Issuance of ...
.
It would flood large areas of
Munduruku
The Munduruku, also known as Mundurucu or Wuy Jugu, are an indigenous people of Brazil living in the Amazon River basin. Some Munduruku communities are part of the Coatá-Laranjal Indigenous Land. They had an estimated population in 2014 of 13 ...
territory, and of land used by traditional ''
ribeirinhos'' communities.
The official estimate is that 1,303 people will be affected by the reservoir.
The plant will be part of the proposed
Tapajós hydroelectric complex
The Tapajós hydroelectric complex () is a proposed complex of hydroelectric dams on the Tapajós and Jamanxim River, Jamanxim rivers in the state of Pará, Brazil. The Tapajós dams would contain locks, thus converting the river into a navigable ...
on the Tapajos and
Jamanxim rivers.
Others are the
São Luiz do Tapajós (6,133 MW),
Cachoeira dos Patos (528 MW),
Jamanxim (881 MW) and
Cachoeira do Cai (802 MW) dams, all under study, as well as the less advanced proposals for the
Chacorão (3,336 MW) and
Jardim do Ouro (227 MW).
The São Luiz do Tapajós, Jatobá and Chacorão dams on the Tapajós would together flood , including parts of the
Amazônia and
Juruena national parks and the
Itaituba I and
Itaituba II national forests.
Technical
The dam will be long, with a maximum height of .
The reservoir will have an area of .
Excluding the existing river area, will be newly flooded land.
Water levels will be upstream and downstream.
The hydraulic head will be .
The plant will have installed capacity of .
The plant will have 40
bulb turbines, each with capacity of .
Assured energy will be .
Annual output will be .
The cost is estimated at US$4.4 billion.
Planning process
Provisional measure 558 of 5 January 2012, which changed the boundaries of various conservation units in the Amazon region, removed an area of about from the
Tapajós Environmental Protection Area due to the planned Jatobá Hydroelectric Power Plant.
The measure reduced the size of other conservation units including the Amazônia National Park, and the Itaituba I, Itaituba II and
Crepori national forests.
The Federal Prosecutor General (''Procurador Geral da União'') filed a lawsuit in February 2012 challenging the constitutionality of the measure.
Law 12.678 of 25 June 2012 confirmed provisional measure 558.
A "platform" approach is proposed for construction to minimise environmental impact.
There would be no access roads, and workers would be taken to the site by helicopter.
After construction is complete the site would be regenerated.
The dam and plant will be built by the Grupo de Estudo Tapajós consortium, composed of
Eletrobras,
Eletronorte,
Électricité de France
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,
Camargo Corrêa,
CEMIG,
Copel,
Engie
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,
Enersis and
Neoenergia.
As of 2017 construction was suspended.
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