Yeywa Dam
The Yeywa Hydropower Station, located on the Myitnge River, 52 kilometres southeast of Mandalay city, at Yeywa village in Kyaukse Township, Mandalay Region in central Myanmar, is the country's first roller-compacted concrete dam, and the site of a 790-megawatt hydroelectric power plant, the largest in the country.
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Myanmar
- Also known as: “ရဲရွာ တာတ မံ”
Yeywa Dam
Latitude
21.68889° or 21° 41′ 20″ north
Longitude
96.42139° or 96° 25′ 17″ east
Elevation
299 feet (91 metres)
Open location code
7MHRMCQC+HH
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In Other Languages
From Burmese to Ukrainian—“Yeywa Dam” goes by many names.
- Burmese: “ရဲရွာ တာတမံ”
- Chinese: “耶涯大坝”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد ييوا”
- French: “barrage de Yeywa”
- French: “Barrage de Yeywa”
- German: “Talsperre Yeywa”
- Italian: “diga di Yeywa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yeywa-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Yeywa-demningen”
- Persian: “سد یاوا”
- Swedish: “Yeywa Dam”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Yeywa”
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