The Água Vermelha Dam is an embankment dam on the Grande River near Iturama in Minas Gerais/São Paulo, Brazil. It was constructed for hydroelectric power production and flood control. Construction on the dam began in 1973 and it was completed and operational by 1978. The last generators were operational in 1979.

Specifications

The dam is a 3940 m long and 67 m high embankment dam with a concrete power station and spillway portion. The volume of concrete in the dam structure is 1500000 m3. The dam's spillway contains eight floodgates each with a maximum discharge capacity of 2481 m3/s for a total of 19848 m3/s. The dam's reservoir has a capacity of 11.025 km3, of which 11 km3 is live (active or "useful") storage. The surface area of the reservoir is 647 km2 and its maximum level above sea level is 383.3 m and the minimum is 373.3 m. The dam's power station has a gross hydraulic head of 57 m and contains six 232.7 MW generators powered by Francis turbines for a total installed capacity of 1,396.2 MW.