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Dorudzan Dam

The 515th tallest dam in the world

58 m · 190 ft

Doroodzan Dam is an earthen dam in Fars province, Iran, about 85 kilometres (53 mi) north of Shiraz. Completed in 1974 and built primarily for irrigation water storage, flood control, and municipal water storage, the facility is also a hydroelectric dam with an installed electricity generating capability of 10 MW.

Dam data from Wikidata (CC0) plus curated additions. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

More dams in Iran

  1. Amir Kabir Dam180 m
  2. Seimare Dam180 m
  3. Shahid Rajaee Dam138 m
  4. Jiroft Dam134 m
  5. Salman Farsi Dam125 m

Other tall dams worldwide

  1. Rogun Dam · Tajikistan335 m
  2. Shuangjiangkou Dam · China312 m
  3. Norak Dam · Tajikistan300 m
  4. Grande Dixence dam · Switzerland285 m
  5. Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam · Russia245 m
  6. Oroville Dam · United States234.7 m
  7. Bhakra Dam · India225.6 m
  8. Hoover Dam · United States221 m