Sogamoso Dam
The Sogamoso Dam is a concrete-face rock-fill dam on the Sogamoso River in northern Colombia. It is located 30 kilometres west of Bucaramanga in Santander Department and 285 kilometres north of Bogotá.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Moterocolombia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Bucaramanga
- Also known as: “Presa de Sogamoso” and “Sogamoso hydro power plant”
Sogamoso Dam
- Categories: embankment dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Girón, Santander Department, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
7.10044° or 7° 6′ 2″ northLongitude
-73.4084° or 73° 24′ 30″ westOperator
ESSA, EPMOpen location code
67V84H2R+5JOpenStreetMap ID
way 1211121502OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damWikidata ID
Q1360413
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Ukrainian—“Sogamoso Dam” goes by many names.
- French: “Barrage de Sogamoso”
- French: “centrale hydroélectrique de Sogamoso”
- German: “Sogamoso-Talsperre”
- Persian: “سد سوگاموسو”
- Spanish: “Central Hidroeléctrica Sogamoso”
- Spanish: “Hidroelectrica de Sogamoso”
- Spanish: “Hidroeléctrica de Sogamoso”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Согамосо”
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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 “Sogamoso Dam”. Photo: Moterocolombia, CC BY-SA 4.0.