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Dossier #5239 · GRanD 4495

Gitaru

🇰🇪Kenya · Tana River · East Central Coast Basin · near Embu

Built 1978 · Dam · data quality: Good

Hydroelectricity
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
30 m
Reservoir capacity
20 MCM
Reservoir area
2.5 km²
Average depth
7.9 m
Installed power
225 MW
Catchment
9,602 km²
Avg discharge
95,141 L/s
Elevation
923 masl
Degree of regulation
0.7 %

Notes

Installed hydropower capacity 225 MW (215 MW effective)

Built 1978

Provenance

Record 5239 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -0.7935, 37.7479.