Dossier #364 · GRanD 2975
Markala
🇲🇱Mali · Niger River · Niger Basin · near Markala
Built 1947 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Irrigation ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 8 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 175 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 101.9 km²
- Average depth
- 1.7 m
- Catchment
- 132,838 km²
- Avg discharge
- 1,032,201 L/s
- Elevation
- 281 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 0.5 %
Notes
This is a barrage for water diversion; not sure about reservoir extent
Built 1947
Provenance
Record 364 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 13.6812, -6.0896.