Dossier #60 · GRanD 3640
Kainji
🇳🇬Nigeria · Niger River · Niger Basin · near Kainji
Built 1968 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 79 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 15 km³
- Reservoir area
- 1,030.7 km²
- Average depth
- 14.6 m
- Catchment
- 1,571,130 km²
- Avg discharge
- 1,388,535 L/s
- Elevation
- 137 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 34.3 %
Notes
Built 1968
Provenance
Record 60 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 9.8661, 4.6127.