Dossier #2008 · GRanD 4055
Kafue Gorge
🇿🇲Zambia · Kafue River · Zambezi Basin · near Lusaka
Built 1971 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 53 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 785 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 12.9 km²
- Average depth
- 60.8 m
- Catchment
- 153,294 km²
- Avg discharge
- 485,222 L/s
- Elevation
- 976 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 5.1 %
Notes
Reported inundated area (805 skm) includes lower Kafue Flats (large wetlands upstream of the dam) which expand and shrink seasonally
Built 1971
Provenance
Record 2008 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -15.8089, 28.4217.