Assiut Barrage
The Assiut Barrage is a dam on the Nile River in the city of Assiut in Upper Egypt. It was completed in 1903.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: MontyofEgypt, Public domain.
Photo: MontyofEgypt, Public domain.
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Egypt
- Also known as: “Asyut Barrage”, “Qanatir Asyut”, and “Qanāţir Asyūţ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Assiut and Abnub.
Assiut
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Assiut is in Egypt. Like a piece of Heaven between Al-Minia to the north and Souhag to the south, Assiut twinkles in the heart of Egypt thanks to its middle location among the Egyptian governorates.
Abnub
Town
Abnub is a city in Egypt. It is located on the east bank of the Nile, in the Asyut Governorate, several kilometres northwest of Asyut. As of the 2023 census, the population was 118,843. Abnub is situated 8 km north of Assiut Barrage.
Assiut Barrage
- Category: run-of-river hydroelectric power station
- Location: Asyut Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Assiut Barrage” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قناطر أسيوط”
- Cebuano: “Qanāţir Asyūţ”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قناطر اسيوط”
- French: “barrage d’Assiout”
- French: “Nouveau barrage d’Assiout”
- German: “Asyut-Stauwehr”
- Hebrew: “מחסום אסיוט”
- Persian: “اسیوط براج”
- Swedish: “Qanāţir Asyūţ”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Асьют”
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