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Tekezé Dam

Tekezé Dam is a double-curvature arch dam located between and regions of . It is situated on the , a tributary of the Nile that flows through one of the deepest canyons in the world.
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  • Type: Dam
  • Description: dam
  • Also known as: “Tekezé” and “Tekeze Dam”

Tekezé Dam

Latitude
13.3475° or 13° 20′ 51″ north
Longitude
38.74205° or 38° 44′ 31″ east
Elevation
1,075 metres (3,527 feet)
Height
188 metres (617 feet)
Operator
EEPCo
Open location code
7G5W8PXR+2R
Open­Street­Map ID
way 506145107
Open­Street­Map feature
waterway=­dam
Geo­Names ID
8051200
Wiki­data ID
Q1126184
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Satellite Map

Discover Tekezé Dam from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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”
  • French: “Barrage de Tekezé”
  • German: “Tekeze-Talsperre”
  • Italian: “diga di Tekezé”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tekeze vannkraftverk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tekeze-demningen”
  • Norwegian: “Tekeze-demningen”
  • Persian: “سد تکزه”
  • Russian: “Плотина Тэкэзэ”
  • Spanish: “Presa de Tekezé”
  • Swedish: “Tekeze Dam”
  • Tamil: “தக்கீசு அணை”
  • Turkish: “Tekezé Barajı”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tekezé Dam”. Photo: Jnyssen, CC BY-SA 4.0.