Hwacheon Dam
Hwacheon Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the North Han River in Hwacheon County, Gangwon-do Province, South Korea. The dam was completed in 1944 as a primary source of electricity in southern Korea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Dam
- Description: gravity dam
- Also known as: “Hwach’on-daem”
Hwacheon Dam
- Category: gravity dam
- Location: Hwacheon-eup, Hwacheon, Gangwon, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
38.1176° or 38° 7′ 3″ northLongitude
127.77846° or 127° 46′ 43″ eastElevation
173 metres (568 feet)Open location code
8QC94Q9H+29OpenStreetMap ID
way 200227246OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Hwacheon Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hwach’ŏn-daem”
- Chinese: “華川水壩”
- French: “barrage de Hwacheon”
- French: “Barrage de Hwacheon”
- Japanese: “華川ダム”
- Korean: “화천댐”
- Persian: “سد هواچون”
- Swedish: “Hwach’ŏn-daem”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Хвачхон”
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