Dossier #61 · GRanD 3667
Akosombo Main Dam
🇬🇭Ghana · Volta River · Volta Basin · near Accra
Built 1965 · Dam · data quality: Verified
IrrigationHydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 114 m
- Crest length
- 660 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 148 km³
- Reservoir area
- 6,019.5 km²
- Average depth
- 24.6 m
- Catchment
- 404,375 km²
- Avg discharge
- 1,372,072 L/s
- Elevation
- 66 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 342 %
Provenance
Record 61 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 6.3026, 0.0603.