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Dossier #395 · GRanD 4045

N'Zilo 1

🇨🇩Democratic Republic of the Congo · Lualaba River · Congo Basin · near Lubumbashi

Built 1953 · Dam · data quality: Good

Hydroelectricity
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
73 m
Reservoir capacity
2.8 km³
Reservoir area
224.9 km²
Average depth
12.3 m
Catchment
17,176 km²
Avg discharge
129,550 L/s
Elevation
1,260 masl
Degree of regulation
67.8 %

Notes

Modern name: N'Zilo (also Nzilo); colonial name: Delcommune

Built 1953

Provenance

Record 395 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -10.4997, 25.4648.