Caroni River - Hydroelectric Power

Hydroelectric Power

Because of its high discharge rate, with a yearly average of 4.850 m3/s and her steep slope, the Caroni ideally suited for the generation of hydroelectric energy with four plants in her course (Macagua I, II and III), near her mouth, the Caruachi, some 30 km aback, and lastly the plant of Guri, in the gut of Necoima or Necuima, some 80 km from Puerto Ordaz. This plant has its reservoir, with an area of 4000km2, in the middle of the river, and has a power of 10.000MW, and is now the third biggest in the world, after the Three Gorges dam in China(22.500MW) and the Itaipu Dam in Brazil(14.000MW)