Dossier #5240 · GRanD 4496
Kamburu
🇰🇪Kenya · Tana River · East Central Coast Basin · near Embu
Built 1974 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 56 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 150 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 8.7 km²
- Average depth
- 17.3 m
- Installed power
- 94 MW
- Catchment
- 9,509 km²
- Avg discharge
- 94,544 L/s
- Elevation
- 1,001 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 5 %
Notes
Installed hydropower capacity 94 MW (84 MW effective)
Built 1974
Provenance
Record 5240 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -0.8077, 37.6823.