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Salto Grande Dam

Salto Grande Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Uruguay River, owned and operated equally by Argentina and Uruguay, with an installed capacity of 1,890 MW.

Salto Santiago hydroelectric plant

Salto Santiago hydroelectric plant (Usina Hidrelétrica Salto Santiago) is a 1,420 MW dam on the middle Iguaçu River in Paraná, Brazil, opened in 1980 and operated by Engie Brasil.

Salton Sea: shallow, saline terminal lake in southern California's Imperial and Riverside counties, California's largest lake, formed 1905-1907 by a Colorado River canal breach, sustained by farm runoff, shrinking and salinizing, with restoration and lithium-geothermal development.

Salton Sea geothermal field

The Salton Sea geothermal field is a high-temperature, liquid-dominated geothermal field on the southern shore of the Salton Sea in Imperial County, California, producing electricity since 1982.

Saltoro Kangri

Saltoro Kangri (K10, Peak 36) is a 7,742 m peak in the Saltoro Mountains of the Karakoram near the Siachen Glacier, the world's 31st-highest mountain, first climbed in 1962 by a Japanese-Pakistani expedition.

Oct 22, 2026

Saltpeter Republic

The Saltpeter Republic (república salitrera) is the name Chilean historiography gives to the period from roughly 1880 to 1930, when the nitrate industry was Chile's principal economic activity.

Saltstraumen

Saltstraumen: tidal current between Straumøya and Godøya in Bodø, Norway, connecting Saltfjorden and Skjerstadfjorden; regarded as the world's strongest tidal current, with 20-knot peaks, 10 m whirlpools, and a 24.7 km² marine protected area.

Oct 22, 2026

Saltukids

The Saltukids (Saltuklu Beyliği) were one of the first Turkic beyliks of Anatolia, ruling from Erzurum from 1071 until the Seljuk sultan Süleyman Shah abolished the dynasty in 1202.

Oct 22, 2026

Saltuknâme

Saltuknâme is an Ottoman prose epic and hagiography recounting the legendary life, wars, and miracles of the dervish-warrior Sarı Saltuk, compiled by Ebülhayr-i Rûmî at Prince Cem's request around 1480.

Sep 23, 2026

Saltuq I

Saltuq I (سلطوق), also called Abu'l-Qasim Saltuk, was a Turkmen commander who took part in the conquest of Anatolia and founded the Saltukid emirate at Erzurum.

Saltus Burunitanus

Saltus Burunitanus: Roman imperial estate in the Bagradas valley, Tunisia, known from the 182 CE inscription (CIL VIII 10570) recording coloni's petition to Commodus against conductor Allius Maximus.

Saltus Neronianus

Saltus Neronianus, a large Roman imperial estate in the Oued Medjerda valley of northern Tunisia, named after Nero; formed from Statilius Taurus holdings, farmed under the lex Manciana, and documented by the Aïn el-Djemala and Aïn Wassel agrarian inscriptions.

Saltus Philomusianus

Saltus Philomusianus was a large Roman imperial estate in northwestern Tunisia, between Bulla Regia and Chimtou, chiefly remembered as the domain containing the imperial quarries of yellow Numidian marble.

Saltus Poctanensis P(h)osphorianus

Saltus Poctanensis P(h)osphorianus, also Posphorianus, a large Roman estate (saltus) in Numidia near Bordj Sabath, Algeria, known from a dedication by the freedman Q. Antistius Agathopus to Jupiter Saturnus and the estate's genius for the senatorial Antistii family of Thibilis.

Saltwater crocodile

Saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), estuarine crocodile or saltie: largest living crocodilian, males to 6-7 m and 1,360 kg, from India to northern Australia; IUCN Least Concern, over 400,000 non-hatchlings, extinct in the wild in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Seychelles.

Saltwater intrusion

Saltwater intrusion is the movement of saline water into freshwater aquifers, most often caused by coastal groundwater pumping; it is the most common water-quality problem in coastal-plain aquifers.

Salty and Roselle

Salty and Roselle were yellow Labrador guide dogs who led their blind owners, Omar Rivera and Michael Hingson, down the World Trade Center's North Tower on 9/11; both received the 2002 PDSA Dickin Medal.

Salty liquorice

Salty liquorice, also known as salmiakki, is a candy popular in the Nordic countries and the Netherlands, flavored with ammonium chloride for a sharp, salty, slightly sour taste over a sweet licorice base.

Sep 27, 2026

Salud Carbajal

Salud Carbajal (born 1964) is an American Democratic politician serving as the U.S. Representative from California's 24th congressional district since 2017, after 12 years on the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors.

Salud colectiva

Salud colectiva (Collective Health) is an open-access, peer-reviewed quarterly journal founded in April 2005 by the Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Argentina (ISSN 1669-2381, English ed. 2250-5334), publishing critical Latin American public health, epidemiology, and medical anthropology research in Spanish and English.

Saludos Amigos

Saludos Amigos (1942) is Disney's 42-minute animated package feature from the 1941 Good Neighbor Policy goodwill tour, with four segments starring Donald Duck, Goofy, and José Carioca; premiered in Rio de Janeiro August 24, 1942, U.S. release February 6, 1943, three Oscar nominations.