Band-e Qarghah
Qargha Dam is located in the town of Qargha, about 10 mi west from the Shahr-e Naw neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan. It is an embankment dam built on the Paghman River, with a side channel spillway under the road running on top of the dam.- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Band-e Qargheh”, “Banḏe Qaṟgha”, “De Qarghē Band”, “Qargah Dam”, “Qargha Dam”, and “بندٔ قرغه”
Band-e Qarghah
- Location: Paghman District, Kabul, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.55281° or 34° 33′ 10″ north
Longitude
69.03426° or 69° 2′ 3″ east
Elevation
1,982 metres (6,503 feet)
Open location code
8J6FH23M+4P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=yes
OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Uzbek—“Band-e Qarghah” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Band-e Qarghah”
- German: “Band-eQarghah”
- Panjabi: “ਕਰਘਾ ਸਰੋਵਰ”
- Persian: “بند قرغه”
- Pushto: “د قرغې بند”
- Swedish: “Band-e Qarghah”
- Urdu: “قرغہ ڈیم”
- Uzbek: “Qargʻa toʻgʻoni”
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