Dossier #1613 · GRanD 4469
Qattinah
🇸🇾Syria · Orontes River · near Homs
Built 284 · Modified · Dam · data quality: Fair
Irrigation ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 7 m
- Crest length
- 1,120 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 200 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 27.5 km²
- Average depth
- 7.3 m
- Catchment
- 3,465 km²
- Avg discharge
- 39,860 L/s
- Elevation
- 495 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 15.9 %
Notes
Original dam was built by Romans in 284 with a capacity of 90 mcm; raised in 1938 to a volume of 200 mcm
Built 284 - Modified 1938
External reference →Provenance
Record 1613 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 34.6645, 36.6135.