Paucartambo hydroelectric facilities now operating in Peru

THE TURBULENT Paucartambo River, which has its source among snow-capped peaks high in the Peruvian Andes, was formally harnessed to the service of Peru´s largest nonferrous mining enterprise recently. Representatives of the United States owned Cerro de Pasco Corporation and the Peruvian Government, who were gathered in the eastern Andean, foothills, simultaneously threw switches setting in operation Cerro de Pasco´s new $25 million Paucartambo 72,000-kva hydroelectric power production and transmission facilities.