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Dossier #375 · GRanD 4041

Maga

🇨🇲Cameroon · near Maroua

Built 1979 · Dam · data quality: Poor

Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
6 m
Reservoir capacity
50 MCM
Reservoir area
115.5 km²
Average depth
0.4 m
Catchment
3,482 km²
Avg discharge
14,736 L/s
Elevation
312 masl
Degree of regulation
10.8 %

Notes

Not sure about capacity; Lake Maga is upstream of Waza-Logone floodplain and forms a seasonal floodplain with an average depth of less than 3m

Built 1979

Provenance

Record 375 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 10.8271, 15.0517.