Dossier #1979 · GRanD 5053
Udawalawe
🇱🇰Sri Lanka · Walawe Ganga River · near Hambantota
Built 1973 · Dam · data quality: Fair
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 39 m
- Crest length
- 4,023 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 268.6 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 27.8 km²
- Average depth
- 9.7 m
- Catchment
- 1,177 km²
- Avg discharge
- 45,801 L/s
- Elevation
- 83 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 18.6 %
Notes
Built 1973
Provenance
Record 1979 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 6.4285, 80.8385.