Roseires Dam

The Roseires Dam is a dam on the at Ad Damazin, just upstream of the town of , in . It consists of a concrete buttress dam 1 km wide with a maximum height of 68 m, and an earth dam on either side.
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  • Dam
  • …lies at an elevation of around 470 metres (1,530 feet)
  • …is also known as “Rosseiris Dam”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Er Roseires.
is a town in eastern 60 km from the border with Ethiopia. is situated 7 km north of Roseires Dam.

Roseires Dam

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Latitude
11.79788° or 11° 47′ 52″ north
Longitude
34.38772° or 34° 23′ 16″ east
Open location code
7G3PQ9XQ+53
Open­Street­Map ID
way 28322101
Open­Street­Map feature
waterway=­dam
Geo­Names ID
368006
Wiki­data ID
Q1265064

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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”
  • German: “Roseires-Damm”
  • Hausa: “Rashin ruwa na Roseires”
  • 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”
  • Somali: “Biyo xireenka Roseires”
  • Spanish: “Embalse de Roseires”
  • Swahili: “Bwawa la Roseires”
  • Ukrainian: “ГЕС Росейрес”
  • Urdu: “روصیرص ڈیم”
  • Vietnamese: “Đập Roseires”

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