Buyo Dam
The Buyo Dam is an embankment dam on the Sassandra River in the Bas-Sassandra district of Côte d'Ivoire. Completed in 1980, it has a hydroelectric power station with an installed capacity of 165 megawatts, enough to power over 111,000 homes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Ivory Coast
- Also known as: “Barrage de Buyo”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buyo.
Buyo
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Buyo is a town in south-western Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of and the seat of Buyo Department in Nawa Region, Bas-Sassandra District. Buyo is also a commune. Buyo is situated 6 km northeast of Buyo Dam.
Buyo Dam
- Categories: embankment dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Bas-Sassandra District, Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Buyo Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Barrage de Buyo”
- French: “barrage de Buyo”
- French: “Barrage de Buyo”
- Japanese: “ブヨダム”
- Lithuanian: “Bujo hidroelektrinė”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Buyo vannkraftverk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Buyodemningen”
- Norwegian: “Buyodemningen”
- Persian: “سد بویو”
- Swedish: “Barrage de Buyo”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Буйо”
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