Bin el Ouidane Dam
The Bin el Ouidane Dam is an arch dam located 28 kilometres south of Beni Mellal on the El-Abid River in Azilal Province, Morocco. Designed by Coyne et Bellier and constructed between 1949 and 1953, the purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power production and irrigation.Photo: Mbenoist, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bin el Ouidane Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: building in Morocco
- Categories: arch dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Beni Mellal-Khenifra, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
32.10682° or 32° 6′ 25″ northLongitude
-6.46409° or 6° 27′ 51″ westHeight
133 metres (436 feet)Open location code
8C4M4G4P+P9OpenStreetMap ID
way 504108035OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damWikidata ID
Q2884936
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Bin el Ouidane Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سد بين الويدان”
- Catalan: “Bin el Ouidane”
- Catalan: “presa de Bin el Ouidane”
- Catalan: “Presa de Bin el Ouidane”
- Cebuano: “Bine el Ouidane”
- French: “barrage Bin el Ouidane”
- French: “Barrage bin el ouidane”
- French: “Barrage Bin el Ouidane”
- French: “Barrage Bin El Ouidane”
- French: “Barrage Bine El Ouidane”
- French: “Barrage de Bin el Ouidane”
- French: “Bin el Ouidan”
- French: “Bin el Ouidane”
- French: “Bin-el-Ouidane”
- German: “Staudamm Bin El Ouidane”
- German: “Stausee Bin El Ouidane”
- Moroccan Arabic: “باراج بين لويدان”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bine El Ouidane-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Bine El Ouidane-demningen”
- Persian: “سد بن العویدان”
- Portuguese: “Barragem Bin el Ouidane”
- Portuguese: “Barragem de Bin el Ouidane”
- Spanish: “embalse de Bin El Ouidane”
- Spanish: “Embalse de Bin el Ouidane”
- Spanish: “Embalse de Bin El Ouidane”
- Swedish: “Bine el Ouidane”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Bin El Ouidane”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Бін-ель-Відан”
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