natural wonder
Sumidero Canyon
A dramatic canyon with walls rising over 1,000 meters above the Grijalva River, best experienced by boat through its towering gorge.
15 km · about 30 min drive
Chiapas, Mexico · North America
Gabriel Esquinca is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Benito Juárez, 15km from Sumidero Canyon.
Gabriel Esquinca is a town located in Chiapas, Mexico. With a population of 1,968, it is an important destination in North America.
On a road trip, Gabriel Esquinca sits in Mexico, where you drive on the right. It's in the America/Mexico City time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Gabriel Esquinca to your route.
The Chicoasén Dam (officially the Central Hidroeléctrica Manuel Moreno Torres, for Manuel Moreno Torres) is an embankment dam and hydroelectric power station on the Grijalva River near Chicoasén in Chiapas, Mexico. The dam's power plant contains 5 x 300 MW, 3 x 310 MW Francis turbine-generators. Torres was ComisiónRead more
Federal de Electricidad's (the dam's owner) Director General in the later 1950s. The original generators were first operational in 1980 while the 310 MW units were ordered in 2000 and operational by 2005. Since then, the hydroelectric power station is the largest in Mexico. The dam was designed in the early 1970s and constructed between 1974 and 1980 under topographical and geological constraints. It is an earth and rock fill embankment type with a height of 261 m (856 ft)
and length of 485 m (1,591 ft). It withholds a reservoir of 1,613,000,000 m3 (1,307,680 acre⋅ft)
and lies at the head of a 52,600 km2 (20,309 sq mi) catchment area. It is the tallest dam in North America.
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Gabriel Esquinca is located in Chiapas, Mexico, North America. The coordinates are 16.9406 latitude, -93.1756 longitude.
Gabriel Esquinca has a population of approximately 1,968 people, making it a town in Mexico.
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natural wonder
A dramatic canyon with walls rising over 1,000 meters above the Grijalva River, best experienced by boat through its towering gorge.
15 km · about 30 min drive
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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