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La Yesca Dam, the Glossary

La Yesca Dam is an embankment dam on the Santiago River northwest of Guadalajara on the border of Mexico's Nayarit and Jalisco states.^[1]

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Aguamilpa Dam

The Aguamilpa Dam is an embankment dam on the Río Grande de Santiago in the Mexican state of Nayarit, northeast of Tepic. La Yesca Dam and Aguamilpa Dam are Buildings and structures in Nayarit, Concrete-face rock-fill dams, dams in Mexico, dams on the Río Grande de Santiago and hydroelectric power stations in Mexico.

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Comisión Federal de Electricidad

The Comisión Federal de Electricidad (Federal Electricity Commission) is the state-owned electric utility of Mexico, widely known as CFE.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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El Cajón Dam (Mexico)

The El Cajón Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Río Grande de Santiago in the Mexican state of Nayarit. La Yesca Dam and El Cajón Dam (Mexico) are Buildings and structures in Nayarit, Concrete-face rock-fill dams, dams in Mexico, dams on the Río Grande de Santiago, energy infrastructure completed in 2012 and hydroelectric power stations in Mexico.

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Embankment dam

An embankment dam is a large artificial dam.

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Empresas ICA

Empresas ICA is a construction company that was founded on 4 July 1947, by Mexican civil engineer Bernardo Quintana Arrioja.

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Felipe Calderón

Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican politician who served as the 63rd president of Mexico from 2006 to 2012 and Secretary of Energy during the presidency of Vicente Fox between 2003 and 2004.

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Francis turbine

The Francis turbine is a type of water turbine.

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Guadalajara

Guadalajara is a city in western Mexico and the capital of the state of Jalisco.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Jalisco

Jalisco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco (Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Kilowatt-hour

A kilowatt-hour (unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a non-SI unit of energy equal to 3.6 megajoules (MJ) in SI units which is the energy delivered by one kilowatt of power for one hour.

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La Yesca

La Yesca is a municipality and the municipal seat of the same in the Mexican state of Nayarit.

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List of power stations in Mexico

The following page lists power stations in Mexico.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Nayarit

Nayarit, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Nayarit (Free and Sovereign State of Nayarit), is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Río Grande de Santiago

The Río Grande de Santiago, or Santiago River, is a river in western Mexico.

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Spillway

A spillway is a structure used to provide the controlled release of water downstream from a dam or levee, typically into the riverbed of the dammed river itself.

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