West Africa
Côte d’Ivoire
Sassandra-Marahoué District

Kossou Dam

The Kossou Dam is an embankment dam that impounds the about 32 kilometres northwest of in Côte d'Ivoire. It has a power generating capacity of 174 megawatts, enough to power over 118,000 homes.
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  • Type: Dam
  • Description: embankment dam
  • Also known as: “Kossu” and “Koussou Dam”

Kossou Dam

Latitude
7.03115° or 7° 1′ 52″ north
Longitude
-5.47432° or 5° 28′ 28″ west
Elevation
196 metres (643 feet)
Open location code
6CVP2GJG+F7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 453510540
Open­Street­Map feature
waterway=­dam
Geo­Names ID
2286233
Wiki­data ID
Q843524
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Kossou Dam” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Barrage de Kossou”
  • Croatian: “Brana Kossou”
  • Dutch: “Kossou Dam”
  • French: “barrage de Kossou”
  • French: “Barrage de Kossou”
  • Galician: “Presa de Kossou”
  • German: “Kossou Damm”
  • German: “Kraftwerk Kossou”
  • Hausa: “Dam ɗin Kossou”
  • Hausa: “Kossou Dam”
  • Hebrew: “סכר קוסו”
  • Hungarian: “Kossou-víztározó”
  • Italian: “diga di Kossou”
  • Italian: “Diga di Kossou”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kossou vannkraftverk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kossoudemningen”
  • Norwegian: “Kossoudemningen”
  • Persian: “سد کوسو”
  • Polish: “Zapora Kossou”
  • Spanish: “Lago artificial Kossou”
  • Spanish: “Lago de Kossou”
  • Spanish: “Presa de Kossou”
  • Spanish: “Presa Kossou”
  • Swedish: “Barrage de Kossou”
  • Ukrainian: “ГЕС Косу”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kossou Dam”. Photo: Hanay, CC BY-SA 3.0.