Foz do Iguassu
Latinoware 2012 will be held in Foz do Iguaçu (PR), Brazil, in the facilities of Itaipu Technological Park (PTI), located in the premises of Itaipu Bi-national Power Plant.
Foz do Iguaçu is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Paraná, its seventh most densely populated, with 255,900 inhabitants, according to estimate by IBGE. The road distance to the capital of the state is 643 kilometers. The municipality covers 617.701 km², of which 61.200 km² are in the urban perimeter.
The city is the country’s second tourist destination and the first in the Southern region.
Panorama of the Brazilian side of Iguaçu Falls. In the back, the catwalk on the Argentinian side can be seen
Internationally known for Iguaçu Falls, one of the winners of the contest that chose the 7 Wonders of Nature and for Itaipu Power Plant, the second largest in the world in size and first in generation of energy and that in 1996 was considered one of the 7 Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The average annual temperature is 20.4°C, the native vegetation is Atlantic Rainforest and Brazilian savannah (cerrado). With an urbanization rate on the order of 99.00%, In 2009, the municipality had 55 health services establishments. The city’s Human Development Index (HDI) is 0.788, which is considered average for the state of Paraná.
The Space of the Americas, located next to the Three-border Marker: on the left, the border with Argentina (defined by the Iguaçu River) and on the right, with Paraguay (defined by the Paraná River)
The region’s urban area has over 700 thousand inhabitantes, and includes Ciudad del Este, in Paraguay and Puerto Iguazú, in Argentina, countries with which the city has borders. Iguaçu a name of Indian origin and can be broken down into its original form, ig (water) and açu (big), linked together by a vowel making the current name. The city’s inhabitants are known as iguaçuenses.
PTI – Foundation Parque Tecnológico Itaipu.
Home of Latinoware and one of the main development initiatives in the Three-nation Region of the Iguassu, comprised of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.
The park implemented by Itaipu Binacional is a space created for knowledge, but where innovation, free thinking and pioneer actions also circulate in the areas of the economy, social, technology and scientific production. It is also a unique park in Brazil for bringing together in the same space a business incubator, state of the art lab facilities, distance education platform and educational projects at all levels, including the Center for Engineering and Exact Sciences of Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (Unioeste).
The Park occupies a privileged area on the West Coast, where the green from the forests mixes with the glitter of the waters of the Lake and the majesty of the spillways of Itaipu Power Plant, the largest in the planet in generation of energy. The PTI is located right next to the plant, on both banks, taking advantage of the former lodgings of the workers who built the plant beginning in the 1970s. This closeness allows it to enjoy the leading edge in modern technology, the follow up and examples of one of South America’s largest ventures.
Itaipu Power Plant
Itaipu Power Plant is the largest power plant in operation in the world. Itaipu Plant is managed by Itaipu Binacional since the plant was built together by Brazil and Paraguay. Itaipu is located on the Paraná River, between Ciudad del Este, in Paraguay and Foz do Iguaçu, in Brazil. The main dam of Itaipu is 196 meters highh and 7235 meters long. The plant’s installed power is 14 mil megawatts, with 20 700 MW generators. Itaipu generates nearly 100 billion kilowatts-hour a year.
The construction of Itaipu Powewr Plant, which started in 1975, involved major diplomatic negotiations between Brazil and Paraguay, since the works were located in a contentious region between the two countries. It was one of the major engineering works of its time, and involved the direct work of u 40 thousand people and consumed over 12 million cubic meters of concrete, enough to build 210 Maracanã stadiums. The reservoir of Itaipu has a surface of 1350 square kilometers. Itaipu Power Plant, which started to operate on May 5th, 1984, generates na average of 90 million megawatts-hour a year.
The quantity of concrete used in the construction of Itaipu Power Plant would be enough to build 210 football stadiums the size of Maracanã.
Itaipu Power Plant is one of the seven wonders of the modern world, compiled in 1995 by the Popular Mechanics magazine, of the United States. This list was drafted based on a survey carried out by the North American Society of Civil Engineers (Asce) with engineers from many different countries.
