Dossier #1951 · GRanD 3621
Challawa Gorge Dam
🇳🇬Nigeria · Challawa River · Lake Chad Basin · near Kano
Built 1992 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Irrigation ★Water supplyOther
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 42 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 1 km³
- Reservoir area
- 64.9 km²
- Average depth
- 15.4 m
- Catchment
- 3,844 km²
- Avg discharge
- 21,066 L/s
- Elevation
- 521 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 150.5 %
Notes
Built 1992
Provenance
Record 1951 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 11.7229, 8.0270.