Historical landmark
Hidroeléctrica
Underground hydroelectric station on the Urubamba River, rebuilt after a catastrophic landslide buried it in mud.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Hidroeléctrica station in Aguas Calientes centers on the twenty-seventh of February, 1998, when a mudslide down the Acobamba ravine buried the plant's turbines, offices, and workers' homes under thirty meters of rock and water. It traces the station's origins in 1958, drawing power from the same Urubamba River that carved Machu Picchu's canyon, and the years Peru's state utility spent digging out and rebuilding the machinery afterward. Before the flood, the plant supplied more than a third of the electricity used across Cusco, Puno, and Apurimac.
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