Balçova Dam
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- Type: Dam
- Description: dam
- Also known as: “Balcova Baraji” and “Balçova Barajı”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Consulate-General of Germany and Balçova Campus, İzmir University of Economics.
Consulate-General of Germany
Government office
Photo: Ayratayrat, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Consulate-General of Germany is a government office, which is situated 2 km north of Balçova Dam.
Balçova Campus, İzmir University of Economics
University
Photo: İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Balçova Campus, İzmir University of Economics is situated 2 km north of Balçova Dam.
Dokuz Eylül University Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Satirdan kahraman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dokuz Eylül University Hospital is situated 2½ km north of Balçova Dam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hatay and Karataş.
Hatay
Quarter
İzmir is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara. It is on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, and is the capital of İzmir Province. Hatay is situated 7 km northeast of Balçova Dam.
Karataş
Quarter
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Karataş is a neighborhood of İzmir, Turkey, within the boundaries of the city's central metropolitan district of Konak. The neighborhood no longer has an official delimitation or status and exists as a notional zone that is admitted to stretch along the small cove of the same name in the Gulf of İzmir. Karataş is situated 8 km northeast of Balçova Dam.
Karabağlar
Town
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Karabağlar is a municipality and district of İzmir Province, Turkey. Its area is 89 km2, and its population is 479,338. It is the second biggest district of İzmir Province as terms of population. Karabağlar is situated 8 km east of Balçova Dam.
Balçova Dam
- Category: building
- Location: Karabağlar, İzmir Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
38.37345° or 38° 22′ 24″ northLongitude
27.03856° or 27° 2′ 19″ eastElevation
123 metres (404 feet)Open location code
8GC992FQ+9COpenStreetMap ID
way 181085753OpenStreetMap feature
building=damOpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damGeoNames ID
9888632Wikidata ID
Q1090504
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Balçova Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Balçova Barajı”
- Dutch: “Balçova Dam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد بالكوفا”
- French: “Barrage de Balcova”
- French: “barrage de Balçova”
- French: “Barrage de Balçova”
- German: “Balçova-Talsperre”
- Italian: “diga di Balçova”
- Italian: “Diga di Balçova”
- Turkish: “Balçova 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 “Balçova Dam”. Photo: Ziegler175, CC BY-SA 3.0.