> Brazil has two or three 1200 mile plus HVDC lines in operation There are four: Xingu-Estreito and Xingu-Rio for the Belo Monte dam, and the two parallel Rio

> Brazil has two or three 1200 mile plus HVDC lines in operation There are four: Xingu-Estreito and Xingu-Rio for the Belo Monte dam, and the two parallel Rio Madeira lines for the Santo Antônio and Jirau dams on the Madeira river. They all take large amounts of hydroelectric power from the sparsely populated North region to the densely populated Southeast region. (There are also the two parallel Itaipu HVDC lines, but they're shorter than 1200 miles.)