Sennar Dam
The Sennar Dam is an irrigation dam on the Blue Nile near the town of Sennar in the Al Jazirah region of Sudan. The dam is 3,025 metres long and has a maximum height of 40 metres.
NASA, Public domain.- Dam
- …lies at an elevation of around 410 metres (1,350 feet)
- …is also known as “Barrage Sennar”
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Latitude
13.55° or 13° 33′ north
Longitude
33.63333° or 33° 38′ east
Open location code
7G5MGJXM+X8
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Sennar Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خزان سنار”
- Czech: “Přehrada Sennar”
- Czech: “Sennar”
- Danish: “Sennardæmningen”
- Dutch: “Sennar Dam”
- French: “Barrage de Sennar”
- German: “Sannar-Damm”
- Hausa: “Dam in Sennar”
- Hebrew: “סכר סנאר”
- Italian: “Diga di Sennar”
- Japanese: “センナ―ルダム”
- Japanese: “センナール・ダム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sannar-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Sannar-demningen”
- Persian: “سد سنار”
- Spanish: “Embalse de Sennar”
- Swahili: “Bwawa la Sennar”
- Swedish: “Sennardammen”
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