Inland from Maceió, 300km to the west, the most popular destination of all in Alagoas is the Cachoeira de Paulo Afonso, once the largest waterfall on the Rio São Francisco and the third largest in Brazil, but now largely emasculated by a hydroelectric scheme that diverted most of the flow – a spectacular piece […]
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Almost 90 percent of Brazil's electricity is generated from hydropower, about 6 percent from fossil fuels and 1 percent from nuclear power.
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