The experience with dams and resettlement in Argentina.

The three projects here selected are also the only ones that caused a considerable displacement of population. The Salto Grande Project, finished in 1979, resulted in the displacement of 12,000 persons in its Argentine side and posed the problem of the need to resettle an entire town of more than 5,000 inhabitants. Finally, the still unfinished but already operative Yacyreta project, pose the problem of resettling approximately (because the resettlement process is still in progress) 37,000 per sons in the Argentine margin and a similar number in the Paraguayan side, most of them urban dwellers. These cases account for the bulk of the Argentine experience with population resettlement associated with the construction of dams. (from introduction)