Qualla: Cachoeira dos Patos Dam https://qualla.com/cachoeira-dos-patos-dam en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/b/q/cachoeira-dos-patos-dam-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cachoeira dos Patos Dam https://qualla.com/cachoeira-dos-patos-dam Cachoeira dos Patos Dam: Introduction https://qualla.com/cachoeira-dos-patos-dam/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The Jamanxim River is a tributary of the Tapajos, which is a tributary of the Amazon. The Cachoeira dos Patos Dam was supposed to stand across it, one of six linked hydroelectric stations that would together form a 12,000-megawatt complex wrung from the Tapajos basin. The plan was for a 528 MW plant, a reservoir covering 11,700 hectares, and a construction cost of 829 million US dollars. No access roads would be built because workers would be flown in by helicopter - a so-called platform approach designed to minimize environmental damage. The site would then be regenerated after construction finished. On September 20, 2013, the Ministry of the Environment suspended licensing. Twelve years later, the dam has still not been built.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/b/q/cachoeira-dos-patos-dam-wp/6ybq-cachoeira-dos-patos-dam-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cachoeira dos Patos Dam: Six Dams in a Chain https://qualla.com/cachoeira-dos-patos-dam/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Cachoeira dos Patos was never conceived alone. The Tapajos hydroelectric complex was a vision of the Brazilian electrical sector in the late 2000s and early 2010s - a cascade of six or seven hydroelectric stations on the Tapajos and Jamanxim rivers that together would add roughly...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/b/q/cachoeira-dos-patos-dam-wp/6ybq-cachoeira-dos-patos-dam-six-dams-in-a-chain.mp3 0:06 2 full Cachoeira dos Patos Dam: What the Water Would Have Covered https://qualla.com/cachoeira-dos-patos-dam/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The Cachoeira dos Patos reservoir would have flooded 9,000 hectares of Jamanxim National Park and 360 hectares of Jamanxim National Forest. Both are federally protected areas, one fully restrictive and the other permitting sustainable use. The reservoir would have spilled into th...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/b/q/cachoeira-dos-patos-dam-wp/6ybq-cachoeira-dos-patos-dam-what-the-water-would-have-covered.mp3 0:06 3 full Cachoeira dos Patos Dam: The Platform Approach https://qualla.com/cachoeira-dos-patos-dam/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The engineers designing the dam tried to solve the access problem with a genuinely novel approach. Most Amazon hydroelectric projects build roads - roads that persist, that become arteries for land-grabbing, illegal logging, and settlement that extends the damage far beyond the r...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/b/q/cachoeira-dos-patos-dam-wp/6ybq-cachoeira-dos-patos-dam-the-platform-approach.mp3 0:06 4 full Cachoeira dos Patos Dam: A Methane Factory in Prospect https://qualla.com/cachoeira-dos-patos-dam/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. A December 2015 study changed the conversation about tropical hydroelectric projects in Brazil. Previous assumptions held that hydropower was essentially carbon-free. The study took into account methane and carbon dioxide emissions from reservoirs in the tropics - where decomposi...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/b/q/cachoeira-dos-patos-dam-wp/6ybq-cachoeira-dos-patos-dam-a-methane-factory-in-prospect.mp3 0:06 5 full Cachoeira dos Patos Dam: The Ruling That Stopped It https://qualla.com/cachoeira-dos-patos-dam/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The Federal Public Ministry, an independent branch of the Brazilian judiciary with authority to defend collective rights, issued its recommendation on July 29, 2013. The licensing process for Cachoeira dos Patos should be suspended, it said, for the same reasons as its sister dam...

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