Hydropower Koto Panjang area has beautiful natural scenery with rows background hills covered various types of trees. From afar the Bukit Barisan mountain into this reservoir of water upstream. Blue-water lake which seemed to attract visitors to navigate around 12,900 hectares area was by boat or pompong. The area is beautiful and quiet is very suitable to be a place to relieve tired after working all day or just for inspiration.
Hydropower Koto Panjang area not merely as a source of electricity and clean water sources, but also store historical value to the community and the District of Kampar Regency Fifty-City community in particular and Riau and West Sumatra in general. Hydropower Development Koto Panjang area began in 1979, when PLN plans to build a small dam in Tanjung Pauh to use stem water mahat, Sungai Kampar Kanan children.
In September and November 1979, TEPSCO (Tokyo Electric Power Service Co.. Ltd.), a Japanese consulting firm, sent a search team of the project (project finding) to Sumatra. From the survey results, TEPSCO proposed large-scale dam construction on the river Kampar Kanan meeting with the location of stem mahat damsitenya Koto Panjang area. In January 1993, the construction project located on the border with the province of Riau province of West Sumatra was also started. In March 1996, the dam was completed and immediately test the water-logging. Coincided with the day on Friday February 28, 1997, water-logging was officially done.
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