Mazar Dam

The Mazar Dam is a concrete-face rock-fill dam on the Paute River Cañar Province, Ecuador. The purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and it is located directly upstream of the Paute Dam as part of the Amaluza-Molino project. The dam's power station has an installed capacity of. Construction on the dam began in 2004; the generators were commissioned in 2010 and the remaining works were completed in 2011. The power generation consists of two turbines of 90 MW, fed by a 384m power tunnel and a 60m high vertical shaft leading into the powerhouse. The powerhouse is 64 m long, 20 m wide and 39 m high, and houses two Francis-type turbines.