Displaced by the Urrá Dam
The Urrá Dam displaced more than 6,000 Embera Katío people from their homelands along the Sinú River when it was completed in 1999. Though the dam was meant to control flooding, there have recently been some of the worst floods on record in the region. Cover image: Kimy Pernía Domicó, an Embera-Katío activist who criticized the Urrá Dam project and disappeared in 2001.
About this community
- Dam
- Urrá Dam
- River
- Sinú River
- Established
- 1993
- Inundated
- 1999
- Population
- 6,000
Sources
- https://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin-articles/colombia-the-urra-dam-and-the-death-of-the-sinu-river
- https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/disastrous-floods-in-colombia-reignite-debate-over-hydroelectric-dam/
- https://www.csmonitor.com/1997/0103/010397.intl.intl.5.html
- https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/224701468332373651/pdf/303600NWP0Good000010Box18600PUBLIC0.pdf