Péligre Dam
The Péligre Dam is a gravity dam located off the Centre department on the Artibonite River of Haiti. At 72 m it is the tallest dam in Haiti. The dam was created as a flood-control and an energy-providing measure in the Artibonite River Valley during the 1950s, as part of the Artibonite Valley Agricultural Project.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- Dam
- …lies at an elevation of around 170 metres (560 feet)
- Description: gravity dam
- Also known as“Barrage de Peligre”“Péligre Hydroelectric Dam”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cange.
Cange
Cange is a small remote village in the Mirebalais Arrondissement, in the Centre department of Haiti.
6 km northeast of Péligre Dam
Péligre Dam
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Latitude
18.90063° or 18° 54′ 2″ north
Longitude
-72.03955° or 72° 2′ 22″ west
Open location code
77C9WX26+75
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism = attraction
OpenStreetMap feature
waterway = dam
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Péligre Dam” goes by many names.
Barrage de PéligreCebuano
Baraj PeligHaitian
סכר פליגרהHebrew
ぺリグル・ダムJapanese
ペリグル・ダムJapanese
Péligre vannkraftverkNorwegian
Péligre vannkraftverkNorwegian Bokmål
سد پلیگرPersian
Barrage de PéligreSwedish
ГЕС ПелігрUkrainian
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