Dossier #59 · GRanD 4478
High Aswan Dam
🇪🇬Egypt / Sudan · Nile River · Nile Basin · near Aswan
Built 1970 · Dam · data quality: Verified
Irrigation ★HydroelectricityFlood control
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 111 m
- Crest length
- 3,830 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 162 km³
- Reservoir area
- 5,372.2 km²
- Average depth
- 30.2 m
- Catchment
- 2,764,126 km²
- Avg discharge
- 2,669,791 L/s
- Elevation
- 178 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 192.4 %
Notes
Built 1970
Provenance
Record 59 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 23.9673, 32.8865.