Aswan Dam
The Aswan Low Dam or Old Aswan Dam is a gravity masonry buttress dam on the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt. The dam was built by the British at the former first cataract of the Nile, and is located about 1000 km up-river and 690 km south-southeast of Cairo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Egypt
- Also known as: “Assouan Dam”, “Assuan Dam”, “Aswân Dam”, “Aswan Low Dam”, “Aswān Low Dam”, “Aswan Low Dam (Khazzan Aswan)”, “Khazzân Aswân”, and “Khazzān Aswān”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Philae and Philae Temple.
Philae
Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Philae Island was an island near the expansive First Cataract of the Nile in Upper Egypt. Due to the building of the Aswan Low Dam, the island is today submerged.
Philae Temple
The Philae temple complex is an island-based temple complex in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, downstream of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, Egypt in Africa. Philae Temple is situated 1½ km southeast of Aswan Dam.
Sehel Island
Island
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Sehel Island is located in the Nile, about 2 miles southwest of Aswan in southern Egypt. It is a large island, and is roughly halfway between the city and the upstream Aswan Low Dam. Sehel Island is situated 3 km north of Aswan Dam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shellal and Nile 1st. Cataract.
Shellal
Village
Shellal is a small ancient village on the banks of the Nile, south of Aswan in Upper Egypt. It was the traditional northern frontier of the Nubian region with both the Egyptian Empire and the Roman Empire.
Nile 1st. Cataract
Locality
The Cataracts of the Nile are shallow lengths of the Nile river, between Khartoum and Aswan, where the surface of the water is broken by many small boulders and stones jutting out of the river bed, as well as many rocky islets. Nile 1st. Cataract is situated 7 km south of Aswan Dam.
Aswan
Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt, some 870 km south of Cairo, just below the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, with a population of 275,000. Aswan is far more relaxed and smaller than Cairo and Luxor.
Aswan Dam
- Categories: gravity dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Aswan Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
24.03248° or 24° 1′ 57″ northLongitude
32.872° or 32° 52′ 19″ eastElevation
116 metres (381 feet)Open location code
7GPJ2VJC+XROpenStreetMap ID
way 275797974OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Aswan Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خزان أسوان (السد السفلى)”
- Arabic: “خزان أسوان”
- Arabic: “خزان اسوان”
- Arabic: “سد أسوان”
- Cebuano: “Aswan Dam”
- Chinese: “阿斯旺低坝”
- Chinese: “阿斯旺低壩”
- Chinese: “阿斯旺大壩”
- Cornish: “Arge Aswan”
- Czech: “Nízká Asuánská přehrada”
- Czech: “Stará Asuánská přehrada”
- Dutch: “Aswan Low Dam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خزان اسوان”
- Esperanto: “Asuana Malalta Baraĵo”
- French: “ancien barrage d’Assouan”
- French: “Ancien barrage d’Assouan”
- German: “Assuan-Staumauer”
- Hebrew: “סכר אסואן הנמוך”
- Italian: “vecchia diga di Assuan”
- Italian: “Vecchia diga di Assuan”
- Japanese: “アスワン・ロウ・ダム”
- Korean: “아스완 로우 댐”
- Persian: “سد اسوان لو”
- Polish: “Tama Asuańska”
- Russian: “Асуанская плотина (1902)”
- Russian: “Асуанская плотина”
- Slovak: “Chazzán Aswán”
- Spanish: “presa baja de Asuán”
- Spanish: “Presa baja de Asuán”
- Spanish: “Presa de Asuán”
- Swedish: “Aswan Dam”
- Ukrainian: “Нижня Асуанська ГЕС”
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