Avon Dam

The Avon Dam is a gravity dam across the Avon River, located at , in the , Australia. It is one of four dams and weirs in the catchment of the Upper Nepean Scheme, providing water to the Macarthur and regions, the , and metropolitan .
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Avon.

Locality
is a suburb of the and , both in , Australia. It is "a locality within Metropolitan Catchment Area on the western side of Illawarra Range about 4km west of Wongawilli and about 5km north west of Avondale". is situated 9 km south of Avon Dam.

Avon Dam

Latitude
-34.35114° or 34° 21′ 4″ south
Longitude
150.64137° or 150° 38′ 29″ east
Elevation
326 metres (1,070 feet)
Open location code
4RQGJJXR+GG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6594368785
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
8310184
Wiki­data ID
Q21957612
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Urdu—“Avon Dam” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Avon Dam (alihan sa tubig sa Awstralya)”
  • Cebuano: “Avon Dam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سد افون”
  • French: “Barrage d’Avon”
  • German: “Avon-Talsperre”
  • Italian: “diga di Avon”
  • Swedish: “Avon Dam (dammbyggnad i Australien)”
  • Swedish: “Avon Dam”
  • Urdu: “ایوان ڈیم”

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