Guadalajara Reporter

Now in his final month in office, President Felipe Calderon inaugurated the enormous La Yesca hydroelectric dam on the Jalisco/Nayarit border on Tuesday.

Built at a cost of 1.4 billion pesos (30 percent over budget) and standing 208 meters tall, La Yesca is the second biggest dam in the world, behind China’s Three Gorges Dam. Located northwest of Guadalajara on the Rio Santiago, the dam will create a giant reservoir with a capacity of 2.5 billion cubic meters.

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