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.