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Dossier #380 · GRanD 3650

Lagdo

🇨🇲Cameroon · Benoue River · Niger Basin · near Lagdo

Built 1983 · Dam · data quality: Fair

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Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
40 m
Reservoir capacity
7.8 km³
Reservoir area
620.5 km²
Average depth
12.6 m
Installed power
72 MW
Catchment
30,922 km²
Avg discharge
222,165 L/s
Elevation
213 masl
Degree of regulation
111.3 %

Notes

Installed hydropower capacity 72 MW

Built 1983

Provenance

Record 380 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 9.0590, 13.6899.