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TOURISM, ACADEMIC PROJECT AND

PROPERTY PROTECTION OF THE
CENTRAL ACARAY
Proposal:
- WALK
- Municipality of Hernandarias
- IDB (Arch. Gonzalo Garay – Eng. Javier Castillo)
 Background
• Little or no investment made to improve the safety of the plant and the
protection of natural forests.
• Easy access in the ANDE properties. There is no checkpoint except for
surveillance carried out by the guard at the plant. There are no secure
perimeter fences for the protection of the forests, which favors the felling of
trees and/or the development of family farming.
• Night lighting in the area is very limited, which makes it difficult to adequately
control the safety of the dam and its surroundings.
• Constant threat of property invasion by groups called Homeless.
• The weakness of control mechanisms, the lack of secure perimeter fencing
and physical limits on all the edges of the area have allowed the
indiscriminate felling and theft of several native tree species, putting the
security of the ecological environment at risk and turning the area at an
environmental hotspot.
 Background
• Within the framework of the investments that will improve the operation of the plant,
including modernization of the dam equipment, complementary investments are
planned in the properties, which, although they are not directly linked to the
operation of electricity generation, are important to improve the control and safety
of the dam.
• These investments, in addition to contributing to improving protection and security,
will serve to boost tourism activities and the use of part of the properties by the local
community, which will contribute to the monitoring and protection of the properties.

• In this sense, the Consultant has identified immediate interventions that are
recommended to be executed in the short term to improve the protection of the
properties, the security of the intervention area and the impact on the community.
• For medium and long-term interventions, more detailed studies are
recommended, including the preparation of a comprehensive plan or
Master Plan for a more comprehensive use of all ANDE properties and the
dry bed of the Acaray river.
Basic Zoning of the Property
the Acaray Dam
 Protection and Security Project
of the Property, the Dam and the Central
hydroelectric
• The Preliminary Design or Project Profile seeks to strengthen the protection and
security of the Hydroelectric Power Plant and the natural forests that surround it,
which are very important assets of ANDE and it is essential to care for, protect and
enhance them.
• In this preliminary design, a Lighting Project, installation of Security Cameras,
Perimeter Fence and Monitoring Center of the ANDE properties adjacent to the
Acaray Hydroelectric Power Plant is initially proposed.
• Through these actions, it is expected to achieve beneficial impacts for both the
community and the environment immediately. The execution of these actions
will contribute to improve the safety of the Dam and the Hydroelectric Power
Station and to the preservation and care of the existing forests, preserving the
green mass that is still within the perimeter.
 Project of Valorization and Zone
of Tourist, Academic and
Recreational Activities
• This Component proposes interventions in a complementary way to the actions
described in the previous point. These interventions will contribute to
converting the area of the dam and surrounding natural spaces into an area
that allows the development of tourist and recreational activities. It will have a
specialized surveillance system and state-of-the-art technology.
• The proposed activities will also be useful to generate a permanent "social
control" that will be generated from the visits and use of the place by the
community itself. It is the users themselves and the community who are going
to monitor and care for the place, they will alert the authorities about irregular
situations or attempts to depredation of natural forests.
• This will also allow a planned and organized visit to the Acaray Dam and the
recreational and tourist use of the forests and certain places of the Lake of the
Dam that make up the property.
 PROPOSAL FOR THE 5 AREAS OF THE
PARK OF THE CENTRAL ACARAY
Zone 1 / Access – Arrival – Viewpoint
Zone 2 / Administration – Machines
Zone 3 / Reservoir Lake.
Zone 4 / Peru Avenue.
Zone 5 / Paraná River.
Zone 1 / Access – Arrival – Viewpoint
The proposed interventions are mainly located in the Dam sector, where in fact there is currently
some basic infrastructure and there are some scheduled visits.
Project Components:
to. Access Portico and Security Box
b. Main paved vehicular access from the Super Highway / 200 m
c. Parking for cars and buses for tourists and locals made of gravel or cobblestones with absorbent
soil without cover or possibly with a roof with photovoltaic panels / 48 places
d. Interpretation Center for Water and Clean Energies / 400 m2 covered
and. Restaurant and Canteen (to be concessioned) / 150 m2 covered
F. Public Restrooms / 20 m2 covered
g. Viewpoint on 4 levels of terraces with stairs and ramps with cobblestone, concrete, steel and wood structure

h. Signage and Infographics

Yo. Lighting system with artifacts at ground level, at medium height and at high height / 100 points with LED
type artifacts
j. Security Camera System attached to the lighting system / 15 cameras
k. Routes, Trails and Viewpoints
he. Perimeter Wired with Lighting System, Security Camera Systems and Signage.
m. Monument of the Virgin Mary Help of Christians
no. Renewable Energy Plants
 Zone 2 / Administration –
Machines.
In this sector there is no intervention with programs for public use at the moment for reasons of
operation and security. Except for scheduled and guided technical visits.

Project Components:
to. Perimeter Wired with Lighting System, Security Camera Systems and Signage / To be
defined.
b. Improvement of the Access Portico, Security Box and Signal
 Zone 3 / Reservoir Lake.
This sector is located next to the Itaipu Zoo and on the banks of the Lake of the Reservoir,
which gives it a high potential for use. The connection of the Acaray Dam with the Itaipu
Reserve through the pedestrian paths is what we would call the “Energy Path”.

Project Components:
to. Wooden, metal or cobblestone pedestrian paths (to be defined) / 4,800 ml
b. Viewpoints over the Lake / To be defined
c. Signage and Infographics
d. Lighting system with artifacts at ground level, at medium height and at a high height with LED
type artifacts / To be defined
and. Security Camera System attached to the lighting system / To be defined
F. Perimeter Wired with Lighting System, Security Camera Systems and Signage / To be
defined
 Zone 4 / Peru Avenue.

This sector is divided into two parts by the recently built Avenida República del Perú. The
Avenue has become a place that is widely used and frequented by the local community, which
uses it mainly for recreational purposes. For this reason, the place has a high potential for use
mainly for recreational purposes.
Project Components:
to. Wooden, metal or cobblestone pedestrian paths (to be defined) / 6,000 ml
b. Viewpoints over the Acaray River / To be defined
c. Signage and Infographics
d. Lighting system with artifacts at ground level, at medium height and at a high height with LED
type artifacts / To be defined
and. Security Camera System attached to the lighting system / To be defined
F. Perimeter Wired with Lighting System, Security Camera Systems and Signage / To be
defined
g. Secondary Access and Parking / To be defined
 Zone 5 / Paraná River.

This sector is located between the Superhighway and the Paraná River. It has an extraordinary view over
the river bed, which gives it great potential for use as a Park and Viewpoint.
Project Components:
to. Wooden, metal or cobblestone pedestrian paths (to be defined) / 3,500 ml
b. Viewpoints over the Paraná River / To be defined
c. Signage and Infographics
d. Lighting system with artifacts at ground level, at medium height and at a high height with LED
type artifacts / To be defined
and. Security Camera System attached to the lighting system / To be defined
F. Perimeter Wired with Lighting System, Security Camera Systems and Signage / To be
defined
g. Secondary Access and Parking / To be defined
 PROJECT IMPACTS
• All thevegetation is intended to be preserved, limiting construction to areas where there
are no significant trees. The adaptation of what was built to the pre-existing vegetation
allows the entire complex to expose the set of native plants as a natural reserve. This, in
turn, creates research and educational opportunities that can be linked to complementary
programmes.
• There are no permanent negative impacts after the work is completed. On the
contrary, the project intends to become a referenceintervention in similar
situations.
• The positive impacts cover the wide spectrum of benefits that a work of this magnitude entails
in an area such as the one established.The protection and consolidation of the area
Through the lighting, the perimeter fence, the security cameras and the proposed services,
they transform the current virgin and undeveloped reality of the area.
• The group ofcomplementary programs, asheInterpretation Center, the renewable energy
demonstration plants, the restaurant, the statue of the Virgin and the viewpoints increase
the flow of people, transforming the landscape into the protagonist of ascenario in which
every citizen can experience and enjoy.
• The topographic use for these architectural projects in this type of placesIt favors the local
economy, the visibility of the entities involved, and the sustainable development of
the natural and built environment.
 COST ESTIMATE
Zone 1 Cost Estimate*
- Access gate + Security booth (50 m2) = US$ 17,500
- Parking for cars and buses for tourists and locals on gravel or paving stones with
absorbent soil without cover (50 places / 2700 m2) = US$ 35,000
- Landscape, Water and Clean Energy Interpretation Center (400 m2 covered) = US$
320,000
- Restaurant and Canteen (150 m2 covered) = US$ 120,000
- Public Restrooms (20 m2 covered) = US$ 16,000
- Viewpoint on 4 levels of terraces with reinforced concrete stairs and ramps = US$
290,000
- Signage and Infographics = US$ 20,000
- Lighting system with ground-level, mid-height and high-height fixtures (80 LED-type
fixtures) = US$30,000
- Metallic perimeter fence with lighting system, security camera systems, electric fence
and signage (1820 linear meters) = US$ 91,000

Total Zone 1: US$ 939,500

 COST ESTIMATE
Zone 2 Cost Estimate*
- Perimeter fence with lighting system, security camera systems, electric fence and
signage (2,433 linear meters) = US$ 121,650 Landscape, Water and Clean Energy
Interpretation Center (400 m2 covered) = US$ 320,000

Total Zone 2: US$121,650

Zone 3 Cost Estimation*

- Signage and Infographics = US$ 15,000
- Reinforced concrete pedestrian paths (3,500 linear meters) = US$ 350,000
- 4 viewpoints over the lake = US$ 200,000
- Lighting system with ground-level, mid-height and high-height fixtures (160 LED-type
fixtures) = US$60,000
- Perimeter fence with lighting system, security camera systems, electric fence and
signage (3,390 linear meters) = US$ 169,500

Total Zone 3: US$794,500

 COST ESTIMATE
Zone 4 Cost Estimation*

- Signage and Infographics =$15,000

- Reinforced concrete pedestrian paths (3,700 linear meters) =$370,000
- 4 viewpoints over the lake and the river =$200,000
- Lighting system with ground-level, mid-height and high-height fixtures (80 LED-
type fixtures) =$30,000
- Perimeter fence with lighting system, security camera systems, electric fence and
signage (3,603 linear meters) =$180,150

Total Zone 4: US$ US$ 795,150

 COST ESTIMATE
Zone 5 Cost Estimation*

- Signage and Infographics = US$ 15,000

- Reinforced concrete pedestrian paths (4,100 linear meters) = US$ 410,000
- 2 viewpoints over the lake = US$ 100,000
- Lighting system with ground-level, mid-height and high-height fixtures (80 LED-
type fixtures) = US$30,000
- Perimeter fence with lighting system, security camera systems, electric fence and
signage (4,471 linear meters) = US$ 223,550

Total Zone 5: US$ US$ 778,550

TOTAL COST ESTIMATE FOR THE 5 ZONES: US$ 3,429,350

* NOTE: The estimated prices are referential and are subject to variation based on the
designs and materials chosen once they are in the Executive Project Preparation stage.
 Startup Project
Zones 1 and 3
• A Start-up Project is proposed for Zones 1 and 3. Zone 1 is where the
Acaray Dam is located and where some primary interventions already exist
such as access, vehicular roads, parking lots, terrace leveling, etc., and the
Zone 3 is the sector of the ANDE reserve that connects with the Itaipu Zoo
and is on the shores of the Reservoir Lake.
• The components of this Project are: Access Gate and Security Box, Main
pedestrian and vehicular access, Parking for cars and buses, Interpretation
Center for Water and Clean Energies, Restaurant and Canteen, Public
Restrooms, Viewpoint on 4 terrace levels with stairs and ramps, Signage
and Infographics, Lighting System, Security Camera System, Routes, Trails
and Viewpoints and Perimeter Wired with Lighting Systems, Security
Cameras and Signage, Statue of the Virgin.
• In a complementary way, the installation of the renewable energy
demonstration plant is proposed in the space of zone 1, using part of the
Interpretation Center as a control room for the plant and the energy
produced in it as a power source for the work. The plant will consist of
solar, wind, battery and hydrogen systems.
Startup Project
Zones 1 and 3
Project Architecture
Start Zones 1

Aerial View of Set

View of the Interpretation Center from the river
View of the Landscape and the Interpretation Center from the parking lot
 NCRE Demonstration Plant
• The pilot plant was designed to be demonstrative and
experimental, both for ANDE staff and for the general public, in
order to familiarize both audiences with the concept of Renewable
Energies and sustainability. The plant will have interaction and
monitoring elements (SCADA and HMI) that allow visualizing the
energy contributions of each component of the plant and its
environmental impact, through, for example, an estimator of
reduction of tons of CO2, measured in relation to the unitary
carbon emissions from the electrical matrix of Paraguay. The
photovoltaic generation parks that will make up the plant will be
installed in visible and ideally visitable places, in order to bring the
target audience even closer to this type of technology.
• The system must be designed so that it operates 100% with
renewable energy, with photovoltaic generation and energy
storage in the form of electricity and in the form of Hydrogen, but
that in turn can have backup energy injection, if necessary. , from
a fuel cell, from a reversible fuel cell or from the existing power
grid.
 NCRE Demonstration Plant
The experimental demonstration pilot plant will allow simulating and
testing different configurations that can occur in real situations, in
order to provide ANDE staff with knowledge and experience and also
teach the general public the benefits that can be expected from this
type of technology. For this, the plant must be able to supply the
demand that has been assigned to it, in the following ways:
- As if it were an isolated system whose only power source is the
photovoltaic plant, including its storage system;

- As if it were a combined isolated system, whose power supply is

shared in variable proportions at will between the pilot plant and
a generating group of sufficient capacity to take the entire load or
else limit it in fractions of 25%; either

- As a system in which the pilot plant complements the service of

the national interconnected system contemplating a certain
schedule and availability of stored energy.
 NCRE Demonstration Plant
Operation modes

1. Operate as an Off-Grid system: PV Plant, Inverters, Accumulators and

backup generation.
2. Operate as a Hybrid On-Grid system: PV Plant, Inverters, Accumulators and
synchronized connection with the electrical network.
3. Operate as By-Pass_G, dispatching the Backup Generator directly
to the load.
4. Operate as By-Pass_R, dispatching the electrical network directly to the
load.
5. Distributed Generation Operation: The pilot plant will have the capacity to
inject all the generation into the existing electrical network.
NCRE Demonstration Plant
NCRE Demonstration Plant

Wind measuring station

NCRE Demonstration Plant

SCADA system
 NCRE Demonstration Plant

• For the sizing of the plants, it was previously necessary to supply 100% of the
demand for lighting of the 15,000 meters of pedestrian walkways, 16 viewpoints
and 35 signage and information points, which are designed in the architectural
project, in addition to access to the park.
• The final distribution of the load to be fed by the demonstration plants will be
reviewed once the start-up project has been defined.
NCRE Demonstration Plant
 Monument to the Virgin Mary
Helper of the Acaray
• This monument can give rise to serving as a refuge
of Faith to a God who protects us and that his
mother Mary cares for us.
• With the fusion of tourist and academic activity with the
religious and historical, of what the Virgin represents
and the construction of the Acaray dam, it will be able to
offer the country a unique tourist and educational
experience.
• With this attraction, every May 24, the feast of the Patron
Virgin Mary Help of Christians of Central Acaray will have
even more relevance and importance, and may arouse
the interest of thousands of devotees nationally and
internationally.
 Monument to the Virgin Mary
Helper of the Acaray

Located on the esplanade of the Acaray Dam

attached to the Interpretation Center

• STAINLESS STEEL WORK, FORGED AT A

HEIGHT OF 27 METERS, WITH A DOUBLE T
IRON STRUCTURE, ACCORDING TO THE
MODEL PRESENTED.
• BASE OF PASSIONARY FLOWER OR
MBURUKUJA IN STAINLESS STEEL, FORGED
AND POLISHED, 12 METERS IN DIAMETER.
• WORK COST = US$ 580,000
 Start-up Project Zones 3
Energy Route
• The Energy Route will begin in Acaray, where the tourist will be able to
observe all the technical part of the Hydroelectric Power Plant, then
cross to the other side of the superhighway and take a tour of the
Water and Energy Interpretation Center, plants of renewable
energies, viewpoint, etc. From this point starts a 4,800-meter wooded
path (Tap yours, which was the entrance for the trucks that arrived in
Hernandarias) whose route can be done on foot or in electric vehicles,
connecting with the attractions of Itaipu Binacional.
• “Along this path you can walk or use the electric vehicles that will be
intended mainly for children and the elderly, enjoying nature,
until you reach the zoo, visit the nursery, go through the museum
of the Guarani Land and then go to the miniature dam. There the
panoramic vehicles will be waiting for the tourists to go to the
Itaipu dam itself
Start-up Project Zones 3
Energy Route

Referential image corresponding to the Experiential Circuit of the

Guaraní World
Start-up Project Zones 3
Energy Route

Referential image corresponding to the experiential

circuit of the Guaraní World
Start-up Project Zones 3
Energy Route

Referential image of a lake viewpoint

 ESTIMATE OF COSTS OF
START PROJECT

- Zone 1 costs* = US$ 939,500

$1,734,000 (c/f)
- Zone 3 costs* = US$ 794,500
- NCRE Demonstration Pilot Plant Cost*= US$ 578,166 (c/f)
- Cost Monument to the Virgin* = US$ 580,000 (s/f)

START-UP PROJECT ESTIMATED COSTS : US$ US$ 2,892,166

* NOTE: The estimated prices are referential and are subject to variation based
on the designs and materials chosen once they are in the Executive Project
Preparation stage.