Gaborone Dam
The Gaborone Dam is a dam on the Notwane River in Botswana with a capacity of 141,100,000 cubic metres. The dam is operated by the Water Utilities Corporation, and supplies water to the capital city of Gaborone.Photo: inmyflippiefloppies, CC BY 2.0.
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gaborone and Tlokweng.
Gaborone
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Gaborone is the capital of Botswana. It is in the south of the country, near the border to South Africa. Generally it is a clean, safe and functioning city that is spreading ever further outwards into a suburban sprawl that today measures about 15 km from east to west.
Tlokweng
Town
Tlokweng is a peri-urban settlement classified as an urban village located east of the capital of Botswana, Gaborone and falling under the jurisdiction of South East District Council. Tlokweng is situated 10 km northeast of Gaborone Dam.
Gaborone Dam
- Type: Lake
- Description: dam in South-East District
- Categories: embankment dam and body of water
- Location: South-East District, Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tswana—“Gaborone Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Gaborone Dam”
- Chinese: “哈博罗内水坝”
- Hausa: “Dam din Gaborone”
- Indonesian: “Bendungan Gaborone”
- Italian: “Diga di Gaborone”
- Persian: “سد گابورون”
- Swedish: “Gaborone Dam”
- Tswana: “Gaborone dam”
- Tswana: “Letamo la Gaborone”
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