Tekezé Dam
Tekezé Dam is a double-curvature arch dam located between Amhara and Tigray regions of Ethiopia. It is situated on the Tekezé River, a tributary of the Nile that flows through one of the deepest canyons in the world.
- Dam
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,080 metres (3,530 feet)
- …is also known as “Tekezé”
- …is operated by EEPCo
- …stands 188 metres (617 feet) tall
- Location
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Latitude
13.3475° or 13° 20′ 51″ north
Longitude
38.74205° or 38° 44′ 31″ east
Open location code
7G5W8PXR+2R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Tekezé Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سد تكزه,سد تكيزي”
- Arabic: “سد تكزه”
- Cebuano: “Tekeze Dam”
- Czech: “Přehrada Tekeze”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد تاكزى”
- French: “Barrage de Tekezé”
- German: “Tekeze-Talsperre”
- Hausa: “Rashin ruwa na Tekezé”
- Italian: “diga di Tekezé”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tekeze vannkraftverk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tekeze-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Tekeze-demningen”
- Persian: “سد تکزه”
- Russian: “Плотина Тэкэзэ”
- Russian: “Тэкэзе”
- Spanish: “Presa de Tekezé”
- Swedish: “Tekeze Dam”
- Tamil: “தக்கீசு அணை”
- Turkish: “Tekezé Barajı”
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