Cahora Bassa Dam
The Cahora Bassa Dam is located in Mozambique. It is one of two major dams on the Zambezi river, the other being the Kariba. The project began to come online in 1979 after much political debate.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nelson Deolinda Amin…, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Mozambique
- Also known as: “Cabora Bassa Dam”, “Cahora Bassa”, and “Cahorabassa”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Songo.
Songo
Songo is a town in Central Mozambique. The nearby dam, called Cahora Bassa, is a large hydroelectric scheme that supplies electricity to grids as far as South Africa.Cahora Bassa Dam
- Categories: hydroelectric power station and arch dam
- Location: Tete, Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-15.58547° or 15° 35′ 8″ southLongitude
32.70511° or 32° 42′ 18″ eastElevation
220 metres (722 feet)Open location code
5GPJCP74+R2OpenStreetMap ID
way 842089986OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Cahora Bassa Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سد كاهورا باسا”
- Belarusian: “Кабора-Баса”
- Catalan: “presa Cahora Bassa”
- Cebuano: “Cahora Bassa”
- Chinese: “卡布拉•巴薩水壩”
- Chinese: “卡布拉巴萨水电站”
- Chinese: “卡布拉巴薩水電站”
- French: “barrage de Cahora Bassa”
- French: “Barrage de Cahora Bassa”
- German: “Cabora Bassa”
- German: “Cahora-Bassa-Damm”
- German: “Cahora-Bassa-Talsperre”
- Indonesian: “Bendungan Cahora Bassa”
- Italian: “diga di Cahora Bassa”
- Japanese: “カオラ・バッサダム”
- Japanese: “カホラ・バッサ・ダム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cabora Bassa-dammen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cahora Bassa-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Cahora Bassa-demningen”
- Persian: “سد کاهورا باسا”
- Portuguese: “Barragem de Cabora Bassa”
- Portuguese: “Barragem de Cabora-Bassa”
- Portuguese: “Barragem de Cahora Bassa”
- Portuguese: “Barragem de Cahora-Bassa”
- Portuguese: “Caborabassa”
- Russian: “Кахора-Баса”
- Spanish: “Presa de Cahora Bassa”
- Spanish: “Represa de Cahora Bassa”
- Ukrainian: “Кахора-Баса”
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