Berny's photos with the keyword: Dique Punta Negra

Why do I post many photos of the same valley? Because it's a documentation of a wild and lonesome landscape and a free river, which is gone now due to the construction of several large reservoirs. - scanned slide, Minolta X700 I will be away for a time and wish you happy days, stay safe!

This image of the valley shows what's now the upstream part of the large reservoir "Punta Negra", used for power generation and irrigation purposes. The PiP shows a section, which is situated a little bit more downstream. The region was very lonesome back then. Now the old road is mostly under water, its course can still be seen on Google Earth. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

In the meantime we would drive here along the shore of the reservoir "Punta Negra". - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Von Giuliano gb - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47967812

The next trip section is the old road "Ruta 12" along the valley of Rio San Juan. It was an adventurous road back then. Now the valley has changed a lot, because several large reservoirs were constructed and the road is a dead end from both sides, it is under water for several parts. In this image construction works begin in 2000 for the dam "Dique Punta Negra", the largest of the reservoirs. - scanned slide, Minolta X700 The PiP shows the actual situation, the dam is 118 m high, the reservoir has a volume of 500 Mio. m³ (photo by Giuliano gb - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47967812):