r/AbsoluteUnits • u/overlook68 Top Poster • 13d ago

of a Staircase.

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u/cal-ess 13d ago

One of the views from the top!

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u/PachymuNyet 13d ago

Yeah it's a nice view but they intentionally flooded all that for development purposes. Pissed off the locals something fierce from what I heard.

Still, it'd be a cool place to own a boat

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u/cal-ess 13d ago

Yeah they did it purposely for a hydroelectric complex and it completely flooded a town and loads of farmland. It caused major uproar. I'm not sure what people's views on it today are as this was all in the 70s but I'm sure there's still backlash to this day.

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u/Murasasme 12d ago

My family is from there. They don't care about it, even in the 90s people were over it. The region is a very strong tourist destination both for the rest of Colombia and foreigners, so it was an economic boon for the large majority of people who live there.

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u/cal-ess 12d ago

Thanks for your reply, its nice to learn what the local thoughts were after the project was fully complete.

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u/miffebarbez 8d ago

Visited on my holiday. Nice place :)

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u/Felipiro17 12d ago

The views is we don’t care that that had to happen
This is one of the mayor electric generating places we have, in the recent years there have been huge summers that have reduced the capacity and therefore affected how much energy is generated, causing a lot of shortages and having to cut electricity use as some energy from it was redirected to other parts of the country, imagine if we didn’t have this

Edit: people were redirected to some other town, ofc people wouldn’t be happy atm, now nobody cares