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Dossier #406 · GRanD 4610

Pongolapoort

🇿🇦South Africa / Swaziland · Pongola River · Indian Ocean Coast Basin · near Mkuze

Built 1984 · Dam · data quality: Fair

Irrigation
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Reservoir capacity
2.5 km³
Reservoir area
128.6 km²
Average depth
19.4 m
Catchment
7,858 km²
Avg discharge
42,969 L/s
Elevation
140 masl
Degree of regulation
184.5 %

Notes

Built 1984

Provenance

Record 406 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -27.4181, 32.0711.