Dossier #184 · GRanD 1320
International Falcon Lake Dam
🇲🇽Mexico / United States · Rio Grande River · near Starr
Built 1953 · Dam · data quality: Poor
IrrigationHydroelectricityFlood control ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 53 m
- Crest length
- 8,014 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 3.9 km³
- Reservoir area
- 120.6 km²
- Average depth
- 32.5 m
- Catchment
- 430,279 km²
- Avg discharge
- 216,536 L/s
- Elevation
- 80 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 57.4 %
Notes
Not sure about capacity
Built 1953
Provenance
Record 184 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 26.5614, -99.1677.