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Dossier #1943 · GRanD 3606

Bakolori

🇳🇬Nigeria · Sokoto River · Niger Basin · near Sokoto

Built 1978 · Dam · data quality: Good

Irrigation
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
48 m
Reservoir capacity
450 MCM
Reservoir area
43.5 km²
Average depth
10.3 m
Catchment
4,760 km²
Avg discharge
26,101 L/s
Elevation
335 masl
Degree of regulation
54.7 %

Notes

Built 1978

Provenance

Record 1943 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 12.5102, 6.1855.