Al-Rastan Dam
Al-Rastan Dam is an embankment dam on the Orontes River in the city of Al-Rastan, Homs Governorate, Syria. It was completed around 1975 with the primary purpose of water storage for irrigation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: الرستن الرستن, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Al-Rastan, Homs Governorate
- Also known as: “al-Rastan dam”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Rastan and Umm Sharshouh.
Al-Rastan
Town
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Al-Rastan is the third largest city in the Homs Governorate, located 25 kilometers north of its administrative capital Homs and 22 kilometers from Hama.
Umm Sharshouh
Village
Photo: Gheyas1969, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Umm Sharshouh is a village, which is situated 8 km southwest of Al-Rastan Dam.
Al-Rastan Dam
- Category: embankment dam
- Location: Homs Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.93812° or 34° 56′ 17″ northLongitude
36.73448° or 36° 44′ 4″ eastOpen location code
8G6RWPQM+6QOpenStreetMap ID
way 372315027OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damWikidata ID
Q12215571
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Al-Rastan Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سد الرستن”
- German: “al-Rastan-Damm”
- German: “Talsperre Rastan”
- Persian: “سد الرستان”
- Romanian: “Barajul al-Rastan”
- Romanian: “Barajul Al-Rastan”
- Spanish: “Presa de Al-Rastan”
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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 “Al-Rastan Dam”. Photo: الرستن الرستن, CC BY-SA 3.0.