Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Coulee Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, built to produce hydroelectric power and provide irrigation water.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Grand Coulee Bridge.
Grand Coulee Bridge
Bridge
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The Grand Coulee Bridge, or Columbia River Bridge at Grand Coulee Dam, is a through-cantilever steel truss bridge built in 1934–35. It carries State Route 155 across the Columbia River immediately below Grand Coulee Dam, near the city of Grand Coulee, Washington. Grand Coulee Bridge is situated 3,400 feet north of Grand Coulee Dam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coulee Dam and Grand Coulee.
Coulee Dam
Village
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Coulee Dam is a town in Douglas, Grant, and Okanogan counties in the state of Washington. The Douglas County portion of Coulee Dam is part of the Wenatchee–East Wenatchee Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,211 as of the 2020 census.
Grand Coulee
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Grand Coulee is a city in the Columbia River Plateau of Washington State. It is on the shore of Lake Roosevelt just above the Grand Coulee Dam, the largest hydroelectric power producer in the United States.
Elmer City
Village
Elmer City is a town in Okanogan County, Washington, United States. The population was 239 at the 2020 census. Elmer City is situated 3 miles north of Grand Coulee Dam.
Grand Coulee Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: concrete hydroelectric gravity dam on the Columbia River in Washington, United States
- Categories: gravity dam, hydroelectric power station, and pumped-storage power station
- Location: Okanogan, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Grand Coulee Dam” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Diga e Grand-Coulee”
- Arabic: “سد كولي الكبير”
- Bengali: “গ্র্যান্ড কুলি বাঁধ”
- Bulgarian: “ВЕЦ Гранд Кули Дам”
- Bulgarian: “Гранд Кули Дам”
- Cebuano: “Grand Coulee Dam”
- Chinese: “Grand Coulee Dam”
- Chinese: “大古力水坝”
- Chinese: “大古力水壩”
- Croatian: “Hidroelektrana Grand Coulee”
- Czech: “Grand Coulee Dam”
- Czech: “Grand Coulee”
- Czech: “přehrada Grand Coulee”
- Czech: “Přehrada Grand Coulee”
- Danish: “Grand Coulee Dam”
- Dutch: “Grand Coulee Dam”
- Dutch: “Grand Couleedam”
- Esperanto: “Baraĵo de Grand Coulee”
- French: “barrage de Grand Coulee”
- French: “Barrage de Grand Coulee”
- French: “Barrage Grand Coulee”
- French: “Grand Coulee Dam”
- Georgian: “გრანდ კულის ჰიდროელექტროსადგური”
- German: “Grand Coulee Dam”
- German: “Grand-Coulee-Talsperre”
- Hebrew: “סכר גרנד קולי”
- Hungarian: “Grand Coulee-gát”
- Indonesian: “Bendungan Grand Coulee”
- Irish: “Damba an Grand Coulee”
- Italian: “Diga Grand Coulee”
- Italian: “Grand Coulee Dam”
- Japanese: “グランドクーリーダム”
- Korean: “그랜드쿨리댐”
- Lithuanian: “Grand Kulio užtvanka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grand Coulee-dammen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grand Coulee-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Grand Coulee-demningen”
- Persian: “سد گرند کولی”
- Polish: “Grand Coulee”
- Polish: “Zapora Grand Coulee”
- Portuguese: “Represa Grand Coulee”
- Russian: “Гранд Кули”
- Russian: “Гранд-Кули”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hidroelektrana Grand Coulee”
- Slovenian: “Jez Grand Coulee”
- Spanish: “Presa Grand Coulee”
- Swedish: “Grand Coulee-dammen”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Гранд-Кулі”
- Vietnamese: “Đập Grand Coulee”
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