Displaced by Irapé Dam
The Irapé Dam displaced about 1,124 families, which were mostly rural farming and fishing families. Estimates place the total number of people displaced at about 5,000.
About this community
- Dam
- Irapé Dam
- River
- Jequitinhonha River
- Established
- 1900
- Inundated
- 2002
- Population
- 5,000
Sources
- Zhouri, Andrea, et al, "Industrial Landscapes and the Uprooting of Local Populations: Social and Environmental Conflicts in Hydroelectric Projects," 2006
- Zhouri, Andrea, et al, "Forced Development and Multiple Displacements:
- Places Confronting Dams," 20014.