Baypaza/Boyghozi Hydroelectric Dam
The Baipaza Dam is a concrete face rock-fill dam on the Vakhsh River about 9 km southeast of Yovon in Khatlon Province, Tajikistan. A purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and it supports a 600 MW power station.- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Yovon, Khatlon Province
- Also known as: “Baipaza Dam”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yovon.
Yovon
Town
Yovon is a town in Tajikistan located in the Khatlon Region. The population of the town is 36,700. It is approximately 30 kilometres southeast of Dushanbe. Yovon is situated 9 km northwest of Baypaza/Boyghozi Hydroelectric Dam.
Baypaza/Boyghozi Hydroelectric Dam
- Category: hydroelectric power station
- Location: Khatlon, Tajikistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
38.26803° or 38° 16′ 5″ north
Longitude
69.12354° or 69° 7′ 25″ east
Open location code
8JCF749F+6C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Central Bikol to Uzbek—“Baypaza/Boyghozi Hydroelectric Dam” goes by many names.
- Central Bikol: “Dam nin Baipaza”
- Italian: “diga di Baipaza”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baipaza vannkraftverk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baipaza-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Baipaza-demningen”
- Persian: “سد بایپازا”
- Russian: “Байпазинская ГЭС (ГЭС Бойгози)”
- Russian: “Байпазинская ГЭС”
- Tajik: “НБО Бойғозӣ”
- Tajik: “Нерӯгоҳи барқи обии Бойғозӣ”
- Ukrainian: “Байпазинська ГЕС”
- Uzbek: “Boygʻozi GES”
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