Dossier #342 · GRanD 5136
Nam Ngum
🇱🇦Laos · Nam Ngum River · Mekong Basin · near Vientiane
Built 1972 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 75 m
- Crest length
- 468 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 7 km³
- Reservoir area
- 435.6 km²
- Average depth
- 16.1 m
- Catchment
- 8,308 km²
- Avg discharge
- 299,010 L/s
- Elevation
- 208 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 74.6 %
Notes
Built 1972
Provenance
Record 342 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 18.5312, 102.5491.