Dossier #1666 · GRanD 4793
Bhakra Dam
🇮🇳India · Sutluj River · Indus Basin · near Nangal Township
Built 1963 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Irrigation ★Hydroelectricity
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 226 m
- Crest length
- 518 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 9.6 km³
- Reservoir area
- 91.9 km²
- Average depth
- 104.7 m
- Catchment
- 52,623 km²
- Avg discharge
- 731,731 L/s
- Elevation
- 480 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 41.7 %
Notes
Built 1963
Provenance
Record 1666 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 31.4113, 76.4359.