Julius Nyerere Hydropower Station
Julius Nyerere Hydropower Station is a hydroelectric dam across the Rufiji River in eastern Tanzania. The power station has an installed capacity of 2,115 megawatts and produces 5,920 GWh of power annually.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Industrial building
- Description: dam in Stiegler’s Gorge, Morogoro Region, Tanzania
- Also known as: “Stiegler’s Gorge Hydroelectric Power Station”
Julius Nyerere Hydropower Station
- Categories: hydroelectric dam, hydroelectric power station, diversion tunnel, building, and industry
- Location: Coast, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-7.802° or 7° 48′ 7″ southLongitude
37.85414° or 37° 51′ 15″ eastOpen location code
6G4V5VX3+6MOpenStreetMap ID
way 895758868OpenStreetMap feature
building=industrialWikidata ID
Q55634022
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swahili—“Julius Nyerere Hydropower Station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محطة يوليوس نيريري للطاقة الكهرومائية”
- French: “Barrage de Rufiji”
- French: “Barrage Julius Nyerere”
- German: “Julius Nyerere (Kraftwerk)”
- German: “Julius Nyerere”
- Japanese: “スティグラーズ・ゴージ水力発電所”
- Persian: “نیروگاه برق آبی جولیوس نایره”
- Russian: “ГЭС Джулиуса Ньерере”
- Swahili: “Kituo cha kufufua Umeme wa Maji cha Stiegler’s Gorge”
- Swahili: “Kituo cha Umeme wa Maji cha Julius Nyerere”
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