Cumaripa Reservoir Recreational Park
reservoir and recreational park in Yaracuy, Venezuela
The Cumaripa Reservoir Recreational Park (in Spanish: Parque de Recreación Embalse Cumaripa), also known as Cumaripa Park or simply Cumaripa, is one of five dams in Yaracuy State and a Venezuelan park, serving as the most significant water reservoir in the state. Located at a site called Faltriquera, it is primarily formed by the damming of the Yaracuy River, southeast of Chivacoa, Yaracuy, Venezuela. Positioned 4 km downstream from the Cumaripa Bridge, near the road connecting Chivacoa and Nirgua, it mainly floods lands in the Bruzual Municipality. It is also known as the Ing. Francisco C. Amelinck Reservoir, named after its chief civil engineer.
The reservoir has a normal capacity of 63.82 hm³, with an average annual runoff of 57.26 hm³, and a maximum capacity of 86.75 hm³. It covers an area of 850.75 hectares.
Inaugurated in 1971, it currently supplies drinking water to San Felipe and Cocorote, supports irrigation for 1,600 hectares across the Bruzual, Sucre, Urachiche, and San Felipe municipalities, and controls flooding, sediment, and pollution.
History
The Cumaripa Reservoir project was developed by the Foundation for the Development of Venezuela’s Central-Western Region, and construction was tendered by the Ministry of Public Works in 1967, under the presidency of Raúl Leoni. Before the dam’s inauguration, basic information for planning the Cumaripa irrigation system was presented in a course held between August and December 1968, based on PERT techniques, with participation from 14 Venezuelan professionals, 2 from Bolivia, 2 from Ecuador, and 4 from Peru.
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