Kossou Dam
The Kossou Dam is an embankment dam that impounds the Bandama River about 32 kilometres northwest of Yamoussoukro in Côte d'Ivoire. It has a power generating capacity of 174 megawatts, enough to power over 118,000 homes.
- Dam
- …lies at an elevation of 196 metres (643 feet)
- Description: embankment dam
- Also known as“Kossu”“Koussou Dam”
Kossou Dam
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Latitude
7.03115° or 7° 1′ 52″ north
Longitude
-5.47432° or 5° 28′ 28″ west
Open location code
6CVP2GJG+F7
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waterway=dam
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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”
- Swahili: “Bwawa la Kossou”
- Swedish: “Barrage de Kossou”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Косу”
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