Dossier #62 · GRanD 4505
Cahora Bassa
🇲🇿Mozambique / Zimbabwe · Zambezi River · Zambezi Basin · near Tete
Built 1974 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Irrigation ★HydroelectricityFlood control
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 171 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 63 km³
- Reservoir area
- 2,041.5 km²
- Average depth
- 30.9 m
- Catchment
- 1,068,237 km²
- Avg discharge
- 2,652,541 L/s
- Elevation
- 314 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 75.3 %
Notes
Built 1974
Provenance
Record 62 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -15.5863, 32.7043.