Karakaya Dam
The Karakaya Dam is one of the 21 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project of Turkey, built on the Euphrates River and completed in 1987. The hydroelectric dam generates power with six units of 300 MW, totalling the installed capacity to 1,800 MW.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Euphrates, Turkey
- Also known as: “Karakaya Baraji”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karakaya and Handere.
Karakaya
Village
Karakaya is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Çüngüş, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. Its population is 161.
Handere
Village
Handere is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Çüngüş, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. Its population is 42. Handere is situated 4 km east of Karakaya Dam.
Üçpınar
Village
Üçpınar is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Çüngüş, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. Its population is 79. Üçpınar is situated 5 km northeast of Karakaya Dam.
Karakaya Dam
- Category: hydroelectric power station
- Location: Elazığ Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
38.22581° or 38° 13′ 33″ northLongitude
39.13486° or 39° 8′ 6″ eastElevation
656 metres (2,152 feet)Open location code
8GCX64GM+8WOpenStreetMap ID
way 172034736OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Karakaya Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سد قرة قيا”
- Arabic: “سد قره قيا”
- Arabic: “سد كاراكايا”
- Armenian: “Քարաքայա ջրամբար”
- Azerbaijani: “Qaraqaya SES”
- Bashkir: “Ҡараҡая плотинаһы”
- Belarusian: “Плаціна Каракая”
- Catalan: “Presa de Karakaya”
- Cebuano: “Karkaya Baraj Gövdesi”
- Chinese: “卡拉卡雅水壩”
- Dutch: “Karakayadam”
- Dutch: “Karakayastuwmeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد كاراكايا”
- French: “barrage de Karakaya”
- French: “Barrage de Karakaya”
- Georgian: “ქარაქაიას კაშხალი”
- German: “Karakaya-Talsperre”
- German: “Q152556”
- Hungarian: “Karakaya Barajı”
- Hungarian: “Karakaya-gát”
- Italian: “diga di Karakaya”
- Italian: “Diga di Karakaya”
- Kölsch: “Karakaya-Talsperr”
- Kurdish: “Bendava Qereqeyayê”
- Kurdish: “بەنداڤا قەرەقەیایێ”
- Maltese: “Diga ta‘ Karakaya”
- Maltese: “Diga ta’ Karakaya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karakaya-demningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karakayademningen”
- Norwegian: “Karakayademningen”
- Russian: “Плотина Каракая”
- Slovenian: “jez Karakaya”
- Spanish: “Embalse de Karakaya”
- Spanish: “Presa de Karakaya”
- Turkish: “Karakaya Barajı ve Hidroelektrik Santrali”
- Turkish: “Karakaya Barajı”
- Turkish: “Karakaya HES”
- Turkish: “Karkaya Baraj Gövdesi”
- Ukrainian: “Гребля Каракая”
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