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Khuzestan

Karkheh Hydroelectric Power Plant

The Karkheh Dam is a large multi-purpose earthen embankment dam built in on the Karkheh River in 2001 by the contractor of Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Central Headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
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Karkheh Hydroelectric Power Plant

Latitude
32.4884° or 32° 29′ 18″ north
Longitude
48.13179° or 48° 7′ 54″ east
Inception
2001
Operator
Iran Water & Power Resources Development Co.
Open location code
8H4CF4QJ+9P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 307389103
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­industrial
Wiki­data ID
Q1575398
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Karkheh Hydroelectric Power Plant” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سد الكرخة”
  • Chinese: “卡克赫河大壩”
  • Chinese: “卡尔黑大坝”
  • Chinese: “卡爾黑大壩”
  • German: “Karche-Talsperre”
  • German: “Karkheh-Talsperre”
  • Hebrew: “סכר כרח’ה”
  • Indonesian: “Bendungan Karkheh”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karkheh-demningen”
  • Norwegian: “Karkheh-demningen”
  • Persian: “دریاچه سد کرخه”
  • Persian: “دریاچهٔ سد کرخه”
  • Persian: “سد کرخه”
  • Spanish: “Embalse de Karkheh”
  • Ukrainian: “ГЕС Керхе”

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