Dossier #27 · GRanD 2516
Sobradinho Main Dam
🇧🇷Brazil · Sao Francisco River · Sao Francisco Basin · near Petrolina
Built 1979 · Dam · data quality: Fair
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Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 43 m
- Crest length
- 8,532 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 34.1 km³
- Reservoir area
- 2,604.3 km²
- Average depth
- 13.1 m
- Catchment
- 500,632 km²
- Avg discharge
- 2,671,621 L/s
- Elevation
- 384 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 40.5 %
Provenance
Record 27 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -9.4227, -40.8241.