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The Rapel Dam is a 112-metre (367 ft) tall and 350-metre (1,150 ft) long variable-radius arch-type. It is 5.5 metres (18 ft) wide at its crest and 19 metres (62 ft) wide at its base. The dam's
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has a 700,000,000 cubic metres (570,000 acre⋅ft) capacity of which 530 million cubic metres (430,000 acre⋅ft) is active capacity.
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and has a discharge capacity of 10,000 cubic metres per second (350,000 cu ft/s). The dam's reservoir,
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in Chile with a capacity of 700,000,000 m (567,499 acre⋅ft). The dam withstood the 7.5
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with only minor damage. It was centered 45 km (28 mi) from the dam.
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428:"Rapel Plant (Chile)"
156:Arch, variable radius
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112:34.04139°S 71.58861°W
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359:Lake Rapel
220:Lake Rapel
103:71°35′19″W
100:34°02′29″S
537:Arch dams
328:reservoir
304:Rapel Dam
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308:arch dam
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