Roseires Dam
The Roseires Dam is a dam on the Blue Nile at Ad Damazin, just upstream of the town of Er Roseires, in Sudan. It consists of a concrete buttress dam 1 km wide with a maximum height of 68 m, and an earth dam on either side.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam
- Also known as: “Rosseiris Dam”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Er Roseires.
Er Roseires
Town
Er Roseires is a town in eastern Sudan 60 km from the border with Ethiopia. Lord Prudhoe mentions this town in the 1829 diary he kept while travelling in the Sennar. Er Roseires is situated 7 km north of Roseires Dam.
Roseires Dam
- Category: hydroelectric power station
- Location: Blue Nile, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
11.79788° or 11° 47′ 52″ northLongitude
34.38772° or 34° 23′ 16″ eastElevation
466 metres (1,529 feet)Open location code
7G3PQ9XQ+53OpenStreetMap ID
way 28322101OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Roseires Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خزان الروصيرص”
- Arabic: “سد الروصيرص”
- Cebuano: “Roseires Dam”
- Chinese: “罗赛雷斯大坝”
- Czech: “Přehrada Roseires”
- French: “barrage de Roseires”
- French: “Barrage de Roseires”
- German: “Roseires-Damm”
- Hebrew: “סכר רוזייריס”
- Italian: “diga di Roseires”
- Japanese: “ロセイレス・ダム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Roseires-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Roseires-demningen”
- Persian: “سد روصیرص”
- Russian: “Розейрес (ГЭС)”
- Russian: “Розейрес”
- Spanish: “Embalse de Roseires”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Росейрес”
- Urdu: “روصیرص ڈیم”
- Vietnamese: “Đập Roseires”
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