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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.