La Yaya Dam Explained

La Yaya Dam
Location Map:Cuba
Location Map Size:250px
Coordinates:20.1269°N -75.3593°W
Country:Cuba
Location:Niceto Pérez, Guantánamo Province
Purpose:Flood control, water supply
Status:O
Dam Type:Embankment
Dam Crosses:Guantánamo River
Dam Elevation Crest:85.7m (281.2feet)
Spillway Type:Chute, free overflow
Spillway Capacity:3900m3/s
Res Name:La Yaya Reservoir
Res Capacity Total:160000000m2
Res Capacity Active:146000000m2
Res Catchment:555km2
Res Surface:13.3km2
Res Max Length:7.6km (04.7miles)
Res Elevation:79.1m (259.5feet)

La Yaya Dam is an embankment dam on the Guantánamo River near the town of La Yaya in the municipality of Niceto Pérez in Guantánamo Province, Cuba. The dam was completed in 1973 for flood control, irrigation of up to 8000ha, and water supply for municipal and industrial uses. The reservoir has a storage capacity of 160000000m2, the second largest in the eastern part of the country after Melones Dam.[1] [2] [3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Storage Capacity Lost in Cuban Reservoirs. An Effect of Sedimentation. . UNESCO . September 2010 . 30 April 2014 . Spanish . 2 May 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140502004731/http://www.unesco.org.uy/ci/fileadmin/phi/aqualac/Laiz_y_Flores.pdf . dead .
  2. Web site: Deliver a Document Certifying The Seven Fundamental Engineering Works Guantanamo Province . OBRAS . 30 April 2014 . Spanish . https://web.archive.org/web/20140502005516/http://obras.netcons.com.cu/component/content/article/79-obras/258-entregan-certificado-acreditativo-a-las-siete-obras-fundamentales-de-la-ingenieria-de-la-provincia-de-guantanamo?directory=601 . 2 May 2014 . dead .
  3. Web site: Situacion actual y perspectivas de las energias . 30 April 2014 . Empresa de Hidroenergia . Spanish . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923221430/http://www.caricom.org/jsp/projects/credp/cuba_study_tour/hidroenergia_cuba.pdf . 23 September 2015 . dead .