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The 'Piedra del Águila Dam' (in Spanish, ''Embalse Piedra del Águila'') is the second of five dams on the Limay River in northwestern Argentine Patagonia (the Comahue region), approximately at , and 590 m above mean sea level, downstream from the confluence of the Limay and the Collón Curá River. It was inaugurated in 1993.
The dam is used for the generation of hydroelectricity and the regulation of the flow of the river. Its reservoir has an area of 305 km², a mean depth of 41.3 m (maximum 120 m), and a volume of 1.26×10¹⁰ m³.

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★ Secretaría de Energía, República Argentina. Embalse Piedra del Águila