Baglihar Dam
Baglihar Dam, also known as Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project, is a run-of-the-river power project on the Chenab River in Baglihar road in the Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.Photo: Vinayak.razdan, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam
- Also known as: “Baglihar hydro power station”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sanasar and Patnitop.
Sanasar
Village
Photo: Extremehimalayan, Public domain.
Sanasar is a tourist destination and the name given to the two small villages of Sana and Sar in Ramban District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Named after small local lakes, Sana and Sar are located 20 kilometres west of Patnitop, Ramban district on the national highway 1A. Sanasar is situated 8 km southwest of Baglihar Dam.
Patnitop
Photo: Rangan Datta Wiki, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Patnitop is a small hill-station town in the Jammu Division of Jammu and Kashmir, far away from the military tension in the Kashmir Valley. Origin of the name Patnitop is a distortion of the original name of "Patan Da Talab", meaning "Pond of the Princess".
Baglihar Dam
- Category: hydroelectric power station
- Location: Batote, Ramban District, Jammu and Kashmir, India, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.1619° or 33° 9′ 43″ northLongitude
75.32755° or 75° 19′ 39″ eastOpen location code
8J5Q586H+Q2OpenStreetMap ID
way 37281927OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damWikidata ID
Q460350
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Baglihar Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سد باغليهار”
- French: “barrage de Baglihar”
- French: “Barrage de Baglihar”
- German: “Baglihar-Talsperre”
- Hindi: “बगलिहार बाँध”
- Hindi: “बगलिहार बांध”
- Italian: “diga di Baglihar”
- Japanese: “バグリハールダム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baglihar-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Baglihar-demningen”
- Swahili: “Bwawa la Baglihar”
- Tamil: “பக்லியார் அணை”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Baglihar”
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