El Cajón Dam
El Cajón Dam is a dam in Capilla del Monte, Córdoba, Argentina. It was built on the course of the Dolores River, at about 910 m above mean sea level. The wall of the dam is 39 m tall and it creates a reservoir with a surface area of 1.45–1.8 km2 and a volume of 8,000,000 m3.Photo: Pablo-flores, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Argentina
- Also known as: “El Cajon Dam” and “Embalse Heralio Argañaraz”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Capilla del Monte train station.
Capilla del Monte train station
Railway station
Photo: Santiago matamoro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Capilla del Monte train station is a railway station, which is situated 3 km east of El Cajón Dam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Capilla del Monte and Los Cocos.
Capilla del Monte
Capilla del Monte is a small city in the northeastern part of the province of Córdoba, Argentina, located by the Sierras Chicas mountain chain, in the northern end of the Punilla Valley.
Los Cocos
Village
Photo: Jofrigerio, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Los Cocos is a village 105 km northwest of Córdoba, Argentina. It had 1,242 inhabitants in 2010, and a newly constructed secondary school. Los Cocos is situated 9 km southeast of El Cajón Dam.
El Cajón Dam
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Departamento de Punilla, Córdoba, Pampas, Argentina, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-30.85324° or 30° 51′ 12″ southLongitude
-64.55015° or 64° 33′ 1″ westInception
1993Height
39 metres (128 feet)Open location code
47XQ4CWX+PWOpenStreetMap ID
way 506760633OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damWikidata ID
Q3374725
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From German to Spanish—“El Cajón Dam” goes by many names.
- German: “El Cajón-demningen”
- Italian: “diga di El Cajón”
- Japanese: “エル・カホン・ダム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Cajón-demningen”
- Norwegian: “El Cajón-demningen”
- Persian: “سد ال کاخون”
- Spanish: “Dique de El Cajon”
- Spanish: “Dique de El Cajón”
- Spanish: “Dique El Cajon”
- Spanish: “Dique El Cajón”
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