VENEZUELA.
Electrification program.
Guri Dam.
Last stamp in a set of 4, issued on 08.11.1968.
Face value: 0.80 Venezuelan bolívar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Printed by Bundesdruckerei, Berlin.
Print: 400,000 copies.
Size: 29 x 38 mm.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 1755.
- Scott No. 922.
- StampWorld No. 1755.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2043.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 764.
The Guri reservoir (in Spanish, Represa de Guri), in Bolívar State, on the Caroní River, is the second largest lake body in Venezuela, surpassed only by Lake Maracaibo. It has an area of 4,250 km2 (1,641 sq mi) and a length of 150 km (93 mi), and was formed when the dam of the same name was built between 1963 and 1968, where the "Simón Bolívar" Hydroelectric Plant is located, inaugurated in 1986 with the name of Central Hidroeléctrica “Raúl Leoni”, which was changed to the current one in 2006. The dam has a total length of 7,426 m (24,364 ft). The interior walls of the power plant were decorated by the Venezuelan kinetic artist Carlos Cruz-Díez.
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