Table 1 Hydropower dams and road crossings in the Western Amazon

From: A baseline for assessing the ecological integrity of Western Amazon rivers

Sub-basin

Existing dams

Planned dams

Road-crossings

LHP

SHP

LHP

SHP

Caquetá-Japurá

0

0

1

0

1221

Putumayo-Içá

0

0

0

0

553

Napo

4

5

9

13

577

Marañón

11

24

55

27

2675

Ucayali

9

9

30

7

2542

Javari

0

0

0

0

0

Juruá

0

0

0

0

184

Purus

0

0

0

5

432

Madeira

18

62

26

30

5550

Total

42

100

121

82

13,734

  1. Existing and proposed hydropower dams and estimated number of road-crossings by sub-basin across the Western Amazon. LHP large hydropower (>30 MW), SHP small hydropower (<30 MW). Non-hydropower dams are not presented in the table.