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Hydropower in the Pan Amazon
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Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: Belo Monte and the Río Xingu

In spite of its design to minimize upstream impacts, the dam has drastically curtailed the extent, duration and timing of annual floods in the seasonally inundated forests below the dam.

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