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As an
old Slavic legend goes, Mountain Tara got its name after the
friendly god Tarr who had chosen this very mountain to spend
his divine life there thanks to its outstanding natural
beauties. The wonderful canyon of Drina river (1000m deep)
is second in Yugoslavia after the Canyon of Tara river
(1300m) in Montenegro and third in the world after the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado river (1800m) in America.
Drina is especially significant for its water power
potentials; it is possible to erect several new hydropower
plants on this river.
 
The annual flow of the Drina is about 12.5
cubic kilometers. The HPP ''Bajina Bašta'' was
built 1966., has 4
Francis turbines, which will begun under reconstruction in
2009. Its average annual
production amounts to 1,482 GWh of
electric
power. For the sake of better utilization of
water power potential, the first pump storage power plant in
Europe was built in 1982. PSPP ''Bajina Basta'' has 2 units,
307 MW each, 610m turbine head. In that time they were
lowest specific speed pump-turbines in the world.
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