Dossier #7070 · GRanD 7136
Merowe
🇸🇩Sudan · Nile River · Nile Basin · near Merowe
Built 2009 · Dam · data quality: Good
IrrigationHydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 74 m
- Crest length
- 9,700 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 1.9 km³
- Reservoir area
- 728.4 km²
- Average depth
- 2.6 m
- Catchment
- 2,345,567 km²
- Avg discharge
- 3,078,474 L/s
- Elevation
- 250 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 2 %
Provenance
Record 7070 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 18.6718, 32.0607.