Shahid Abbaspour Dam
The Shahid Abbaspour Dam, formerly known as Great Reza Shah Kabir Dam before the 1979 Revolution, is a large arch dam providing hydroelectricity from the Karun River; it is located about 50 kilometres northeast of Masjed Soleiman, in the province of Khuzestan, Iran, and originally completed in 1976.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hadi Karimi, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Iran
- Also known as: “Karun-1 Dam” and “Reza Shah Dam”
Shahid Abbaspour Dam
- Category: arch dam
- Location: Khuzestan, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.05175° or 32° 3′ 6″ northLongitude
49.60652° or 49° 36′ 24″ eastOpen location code
8H4F3J24+MJOpenStreetMap ID
way 179551611OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damWikidata ID
Q478827
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Shahid Abbaspour Dam” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “卡伦河一号大坝”
- Chinese: “沙希德·阿巴斯帕尔坝”
- Chinese: “沙希德·阿巴斯帕尔水电站”
- Chinese: “沙希德·阿巴斯帕爾壩”
- Chinese: “沙希德·阿巴斯帕爾水電站”
- Chinese: “沙希德阿巴斯普尔大坝”
- Chinese: “礼萨汗大坝”
- French: “barrage de Karun-1”
- French: “barrage de Shahid Abbaspour”
- French: “Barrage de Shahid Abbaspour”
- German: “Karun-1”
- German: “Schahid-Abbaspur-Talsperre”
- German: “Shahid-Abbaspur-Talsperre”
- Hebrew: “סכר שהיד עבאספור”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karun 1-demningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shahid Abbaspour-demningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shahid-Abbaspur-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Karun 1-demningen”
- Persian: “دریاچه سد شهید عباسپور”
- Persian: “دریاچهٔ سد شهید عباسپور”
- Persian: “سد شهید عباسپور”
- Persian: “سد کارون 1”
- Persian: “سد کارون ۱”
- Persian: “کارون ۱”
- Spanish: “Embalse de Karún-1”
- Ukrainian: “Карун-1 (ГЕС)”
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