Dossier #63 · GRanD 4056
Kariba
🇿🇼Zimbabwe / Zambia · Zambezi River · Zambezi Basin · near Harare
Built 1959 · Dam · data quality: Good
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 128 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 185 km³
- Reservoir area
- 5,259.3 km²
- Average depth
- 35.2 m
- Installed power
- 1,350 MW
- Catchment
- 679,344 km²
- Avg discharge
- 1,315,381 L/s
- Elevation
- 485 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 446 %
Notes
Installed hydropower capacity 1350 MW
Built 1959
Provenance
Record 63 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -16.5229, 28.7604.