Tourism minister, Luis Bohm said there IDB financing to pave the road between the Agua del Toro -located dam 89 miles west of San Rafael – with the town of Villa 25 de Mayo. They are about 60 miles, but in straight line and “what we want is to be coasting Diamond, to add another attraction of relevance in southern Mendoza.” – Said “The negotiations are advanced in a project in which we must convince the Bank that is essential to the path skirting the Diamante river and not on the outside in a straight path, it is not only important to achieve connectivity with Water reservoir Toro but vital tourism development in an incredibly beautiful area, similar to the barrel Atuel “he affirmed Böhm on” Tourism 530 “radio El Mundo. Although he claimed not to remember exactly how many investment that will surely be around $ 20 million, changing layout generate tourism development in the region can overcome even produced Atuel Canyon. The truth is that with this change, “the total cost of the work will rise, as will be developed further engineering work and blasting on the mountain, but we understand that it is vital not to waste such an opportunity for growth and tourism development” “this week we have important meetings to work on specific issues and track projects like this that allow us to grow for tourism, which is one of the premises of Governor Celso Jaque: transforming the province as he did when he was mayor Malargüe “and said he added that “define the actions to promote Snow Festival, the launch of a provincial rural tourism guide and see results-although we will not have figures until 7 July-floor programs and Mendoza Golden Autumn to Mendoza. “Regarding the latter said “Mendoza are using a lot of discounts offered for adventure activities and secondly conventional tours and visits to wineries and thirdly use discount accommodation,” he said. Returning to Diamond, this river rises in the homonymous lagoon at Cordillera de Los Andes and forms a basin that has also been used for hydroelectric production, with its four central generating 300,000 kw / h. Toro Water Reservoir, is located in the so-called Pampa Amarilla, 89 km from San Rafael and 1,300 masl,. The double curvature dam has been built entirely in cyclopean concrete embedded in the rock, forming a lake of 1,050 hectares. On the left bank a housing complex and the Water bakeries and Power Company built the Nation for personal care tasks and develop the same building rises. The barrel of the Diamante River, and eastward down is just 35 km from the City of San Rafael, the dam Reyunos, whose firing squad has special features as stone, clay compacts were used, which allowed simple and low cost implementation; its height reaches 134 m and is crowned by a gazebo and the access road to the plant is located below the lower level of the lake; it has a distinction of being one of the first Latin pumping, ie-peak energy consumption of the turbine rotation is reversed to return the water accumulated in the compensator El Tigre dam to the main lake. In its lake of 734 hectares., Planting fingerlings is done, creating good fishing for salmon and mackerel. On the western margin, a fishing and nautical club, an apart hotel, restaurant supply stores, cabins, campsites with all three services and also you can rent boats, fishing gear, windsurfing, horseback riding, hiking, mountain rises biking and other activities.
