Sogamoso Dam

The Sogamoso Dam is a concrete-face rock-fill dam on the Sogamoso River in northern Colombia. It is located west of Bucaramanga in Santander Department and north of Bogotá. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and its power plant has an installed capacity of which increased Colombia's generating capacity by 10 percent. Construction on the dam began in February 2009 and its first 273 MW Francis turbine-generator was commissioned on 1 December 2014. The other two ge…