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Brokopondo Reservoir

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The Brokopondo Reservoir, officially named Professor Doctor Ingenieur W. J. van Blommestein Meer, and also called the Brokopondostuwmeer, is a large reservoir in Suriname. [1]

21 relations: Afobaka, Afobaka Dam, Alcoa, Aluminium, Aluminium oxide, Arte, Bauxite, Brazil, Brokopondo, China, Drainage basin, Drought, Netherlands, Paramaribo, Reservoir, Surakarta, Suriname, Suriname River, Three Gorges Dam, Tucuruí Dam, World Bank.

Afobaka

Afobaka is a village in the Brokopondo District of Suriname.

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Afobaka Dam

The Afobaka Dam is an embankment dam with a main gravity dam section on the Suriname River near Afobaka in Brokopondo District of Suriname.

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Alcoa

Alcoa Corporation (from Aluminum Company of America) is an American industrial corporation.

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Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Aluminium oxide

Aluminium oxide (British English) or aluminum oxide (American English) is a chemical compound of aluminium and oxygen with the chemical formula 23.

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Arte

ARTE (Association relative à la télévision européenne) is a public Franco-German TV network that promotes programming in the areas of culture and the arts.

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Bauxite

Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Brokopondo

Brokopondo is a capital town of the Brokopondo District, Suriname.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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Drought

A drought is a period of below-average precipitation in a given region, resulting in prolonged shortages in the water supply, whether atmospheric, surface water or ground water.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Paramaribo

Paramaribo (nickname: Par′bo) is the capital and largest city of Suriname, located on the banks of the Suriname River in the Paramaribo District.

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Reservoir

A reservoir (from French réservoir – a "tank") is a storage space for fluids.

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Surakarta

Surakarta (ꦯꦸꦫꦏꦂꦠ, often called Solo or less common spelling Sala) is a city in Central Java.

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Suriname

Suriname (also spelled Surinam), officially known as the Republic of Suriname (Republiek Suriname), is a sovereign state on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America.

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Suriname River

The Suriname River (Dutch: Surinamerivier) is 480 km long and flows through the country Suriname.

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Three Gorges Dam

The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, China.

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Tucuruí Dam

The Tucuruí Dam (Tucuruí means "grasshopper's water", translated from Tupí language; Tucuruí) is a concrete gravity dam on the Tocantins River located on the Tucuruí County in the State of Pará, Brazil.

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World Bank

The World Bank (Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokopondo_Reservoir

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