Beervlei Dam
Beervlei Dam is a dam across the Groot River, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Established in 1957, it has the capacity of 85,800,000 cubic metres, and a surface area of 23.145 square kilometres, and the dam wall is 31 m high.Beervlei Dam
- Type: Body of water (intermittent)
- Description: Dam build for flood absorption on Groot River in Cape, South Africa
- Category: dam
- Location: Eastern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-33.04239° or 33° 2′ 33″ south
Longitude
23.46569° or 23° 27′ 57″ east
Elevation
703 metres (2,306 feet)
Open location code
4GR5XF58+27
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap attribute
intermittent=yes
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Uzbek—“Beervlei Dam” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Beervleidam”
- French: “Barrage de Beervlei”
- Hausa: “Ruwan ruwa na Beervlei”
- Italian: “diga di Beervlei”
- Persian: “سد برولی”
- Swahili: “Bwawa la Beervlei”
- Tswana: “Letamo la Beervlei”
- Uzbek: “Beervlei toʻgʻoni”
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