Merowe Dam
The Merowe Dam, also known as Merowe High Dam, Merowe Multi-Purpose Hydro Project or Hamdab Dam, is a large dam near Merowe Town in northern Sudan, about 350 kilometres north of the capital Khartoum.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: محمد عادل الحسين, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Sudan
- Also known as: “Hamdab Dam” and “Hamdab High Dam”
Merowe Dam
- Category: hydroelectric power station
- Location: Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
18.67096° or 18° 40′ 15″ northLongitude
32.04982° or 32° 2′ 59″ eastElevation
258 metres (846 feet)Open location code
7GCJM2CX+9WOpenStreetMap ID
way 275959930OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Merowe Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سد مروي”
- Basque: “Meroweko urtegia”
- Cebuano: “Merowe Dam”
- Chinese: “麦洛维大坝”
- Chinese: “麦罗维大坝”
- Dutch: “Merowe Dam”
- French: “barrage de Méroé”
- French: “Barrage de Méroé”
- French: “Barrage de merowe”
- French: “Barrage de Merowe”
- German: “Hamadab-Damm”
- German: “Hamadab-Merowe-Damm”
- German: “Hamdab Staudamm”
- German: “Merowe-Damm”
- German: “Merowe-Hamadab-Damm”
- German: “Merowe-Staudamm”
- German: “Merowe-Talsperre”
- Hebrew: “סכר מרווה”
- Italian: “diga di Merowe”
- Italian: “Diga di Merowe”
- Japanese: “メロウェダム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamdab-demningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Merowe-demningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Merowedemningen”
- Norwegian: “Merowedemningen”
- Persian: “سد مروت”
- Polish: “Zapora Merowe”
- Spanish: “Embalse de Merowe”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Мерове”
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