Bui Dam
The Bui Dam is a 400-megawatt hydroelectric project in Ghana. It is built on the Black Volta river at the Bui Gorge, at the southern end of Bui National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Bui Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: hydroelectric project in Ghana
- Categories: gravity dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Bole District, Savannah Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
8.27915° or 8° 16′ 45″ northLongitude
-2.23629° or 2° 14′ 11″ westElevation
105 metres (344 feet)Open location code
6CWV7QH7+MFOpenStreetMap ID
way 185995275OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Bui Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bui Dam”
- Chinese: “布伊水壩”
- Chinese: “布维水电站”
- French: “barrage de Bui”
- French: “Barrage de Bui”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bui Dam”
- Hausa: “Madatsar ruwan Bui”
- Indonesian: “Bendungan Bui”
- Lithuanian: “Bui užtvanka”
- Persian: “سد بوی”
- Swedish: “Bui Dam”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Bui”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Буі”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Буї”
- Urdu: “گھانا میں ہائیڈرو الیکٹرک پروجیکٹ”
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