Dossier #1969 · GRanD 5047
Parakrama Samudra
🇱🇰Sri Lanka · Amban Ganga River · near Polonnaruwa
Built 386 · Dam · data quality: Verified
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 15 m
- Crest length
- 13,582 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 127.3 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 23.2 km²
- Average depth
- 5.5 m
- Catchment
- 1,535 km²
- Avg discharge
- 35,675 L/s
- Elevation
- 58 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 11.3 %
Notes
Ancient reservoir system; first section was built 386 A.D., second and third sections around 1180
Built 386
External reference →Provenance
Record 1969 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 7.8954, 80.9880.