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The world's primary regions for producing hydroelectricity at dammed river power plants

The map shows the distribution of some of the world’s major hydroelectric dams and power-generating stations. In North America, these facilities are found in Canada in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and Labrador. In the United States, they are on major rivers in the Pacific Northwest (for example, the Columbia River), Arizona and Utah (on the Colorado River), and in the Northeast in New York (on the Niagara River between United States and Canada) and New England. In South America, dams generate hydro power in Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil (particularly on the Paraná River and its tributaries), and in Argentina on the Rio de la Plata and on rivers that flow from the Andes mountains. In Europe, major hydroelectric facilities are found in Portugal, Norway, France, Switzerland, Ukraine (on the Dnieper River), and in Russia (on the Volga and on rivers in Siberia, which is in Asia). In Africa, these facilities have been constructed on the Nile River in Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia and between Zambia and Zimbabwe on the Zambesi River. In Southwest Asia, hydroelectric dams generate power on the Euphrates River in Turkey, the Tigris in Iraq, and Iran’s Zagros Mountains. In Central Asia, Tajikistan has a hydroelectric dam. In South Asia, dams have been constructed on rivers in northern Pakistan; in India on rivers in Kashmir in the north as well as in several places in central and southern India; and in Bhutan. In Southeast Asia, these facilities are found in Laos and Vietnam and in Indonesia on the islands of Java and Borneo. In East Asia, southwestern and central China have numerous hydroelectric dams, and there are also a few in northern China. Japan has a major hydroelectric dam between Tokyo and Osaka. The map does not show any hydropower production for Oceania.

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Bad Creek Hydroelectric Power Plant SC USA	Bath County Pumped Storage Hydroelecric Power Plant VA USA	Beauharnois Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada	Bersimis-1 Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada	Blenheim Gilboa Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant NY USA	Bonneville Hydro Power Plant OR USA	Boundary Dam Hydro Power Plant WA USA	Castaic Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant CA USA	Chief Joseph Hydro Power Plant WA USA	Churchill Falls Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	G M Shrum (W.A.C. Bennett) Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada	Glen Canyon Dam Hydro Power Plant AZ USA	Grand Coulee Hydro Power Plant WA USA	Helms Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant CA USA	Hoover Dam Hydro Power Plant AZ/NV USA	John Day Hydro Power Plant OR USA	Kettle Rapids Hydroelectric generating Station Canada	La Grande-1 Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	La Grande-2-A Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	La grande-3 Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	La grande-4 Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	Limestone Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	Long Spruce Hydroelectric Geneerating Station Canada	Ludington Hydro Power Plant MI USA	Manic-2 (Jean-Lesage) Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	Manic-3 (Rene-Levesque) Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	Manic-5 Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	Manic-5-PA Hydroelectric generating Station Canada	Mica Creek Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada	Muddy Run Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant PA USA	Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant MA USA	Outardes-3 Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada	R.H. Saunders Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada	Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant TN USA	Revelstoke Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada	Robert Moses Niagara Hydro Power Plant NY USA	Robert-Bourassa Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	Rocky Mountain Pumped Storage Hydro Hydro Power Plant GA USA	Rocky Reach Hydro Power Plant WA USA	Sir Adam Beck II Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	The Dalles Hydro Power Plant OR USA	Toktogul Hydroelectric Power Plant Kyrgyzstan	Wanapum Hydro Power Plant WA USA	Class	Rank	Days	South Central	Northeast	Southeast	Northeast	West	Central	North Central	Central	Southwest	Upper Delta	Southeast	Northeast	West Central	Upper Plains	East Central	Northeast Prairie	North Central	West Central	East Central	West Southwest	East Central	Central	South Central	Coastal Plain	South Central	Central	Northern Valley	Northwest Prairie	Southeast	Lower Delta	North Central	Northeast	South Central	Southeast	South Central	West Central Plains	Central	Northwest	East 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