Hatogaya Dam
The Hatogaya Dam is a gravity dam on the Shō River about 2 km south of Shirakawa in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It was constructed between 1954 and 1956. The dam has an associated 43 MW hydroelectric power station which was commissioned in 1956.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Dam
- Description: Japanese dam
- Also known as: “Ōmaki Dam”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Shirakawa-go and Gasshozukuri Minkaen Outdoor Museum.
Shirakawa-go
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
Shirakawa-gō, formally Shirakawa-mura, is a historic village in Gifu. Together with Gokayama in Toyama, it was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on December 9, 1995.
Gasshozukuri Minkaen Outdoor Museum
Museum
Photo: Vanbasten 23, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gasshozukuri Minkaen Outdoor Museum is situated 1 km northeast of Hatogaya Dam.
Hatogaya Dam
- Categories: gravity dam and hydroelectric dam
- Location: Shirakawa, Ono district, Gifu, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
36.24831° or 36° 14′ 54″ northLongitude
136.89335° or 136° 53′ 36″ eastElevation
548 metres (1,798 feet)Inception
1956Height
63 metres (207 feet)Operator
Kansai Electric Power CompanyOpen location code
8Q8R6VXV+88OpenStreetMap ID
way 435727695OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damGeoNames ID
7572658Wikidata ID
Q11675231
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Japanese—“Hatogaya Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hatogaya-damu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد هاتوجايا”
- French: “barrage Hatogaya”
- French: “Barrage Hatogaya”
- French: “Hatogaya-damu”
- Italian: “Diga di Hatogaya”
- Japanese: “Hatogaya-damu”
- Japanese: “はとがやだむ”
- Japanese: “はとがやダム”
- Japanese: “大牧ダム”
- Japanese: “新鳩谷発電所”
- Japanese: “鳩谷ダム”
- Japanese: “鳩谷発電所”
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