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.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- Dam
- …lies at an elevation of around 170 metres (570 feet)
- …is also known as “Hwach’on-daem”
- Description: gravity dam
- Category: gravity dam
- Location
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Latitude
38.11786° or 38° 7′ 4″ north
Longitude
127.77846° or 127° 46′ 43″ east
Open location code
8QC94Q9H+49
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap 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”
- Japanese: “華川ダム”
- Korean: “화천댐”
- Persian: “سد هواچون”
- Swedish: “Hwach’ŏn-daem”
- Thai: “เขื่อนฮวาช็อน”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Хвачхон”
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