Dossier #4985 · GRanD 4477
Old Aswan Dam
🇪🇬Egypt · Nile River · Nile Basin · near Aswan
Built 1933 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Irrigation ★Hydroelectricity
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 53 m
- Crest length
- 1,900 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 200 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 8.2 km²
- Average depth
- 24.3 m
- Catchment
- 2,764,310 km²
- Avg discharge
- 2,637,993 L/s
- Elevation
- 109 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 0.2 %
Notes
Replaced by High Aswan Dam, so data may no longer be correct; dam still exists (~6km downstream)
Built 1933
Provenance
Record 4985 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 24.0337, 32.8692.