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Flying over the Guri Dam, Venezuela

Flight from Eciudad Bolivar to the Canaima National Park, Venezuela. The Guri Dam is a large dam in Bolívar State, Venezuela on the Caroni River. It is one of the largest dams in the world. Its official name is Central Hidroeléctrica Simón Bolívar (previously named Central Hidroeléctrica Raúl Leoni from 1978 to 2000). It is 1300 meters long and 162 m high. Construction began in 1963; the first part concluded in 1978 and the second in 1986. The dam and reservoir as seen from space.The dam has long been the focus of much controversy, because the lake it created forever destroyed thousands of square miles of forest that was renowned for its biodiversity and rare wildlife, including the only place where the recently-discovered Carrizal Seedeater (a finch-like tanager) was ever found.