Rio Grande Dam

Rio Grande Dam is a dam in , impounding the . Built between 1910 and 1914 by the San Luis Valley Irrigation District to store water for agriculture in the San Luis Valley, Rio Grande Dam is an earth and rock fill dam 111 ft high and 550 ft long.
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Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0.
  • Dam
  • …lies at an elevation of 9,455 feet (2,882 metres)
  • Description: dam in Hinsdale County, Colorado, United States

Rio Grande Dam

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Latitude
37.72081° or 37° 43′ 15″ north
Longitude
-107.26722° or 107° 16′ 2″ west
Open location code
859JPPCM+84
Open­Street­Map ID
way 228006846
Open­Street­Map feature
waterway=­dam
Geo­Names ID
5436479
Wiki­data ID
Q14685080

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Italian—“Rio Grande Dam” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Rio Grande Dam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سد ريو جراندى”
  • Italian: “diga di Rio Grande”

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