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Kürpsay Dam

The 928th tallest dam in the world

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The Kürpsay Dam (Kyrgyz) is a gravity dam on the river Naryn in Jalal-Abad Region of Kyrgyzstan, downstream from the Toktogul Dam. It is 113 m (371 ft) tall and creates a 370,000,000 m3 (299, 964 acre⋅ft) reservoir of which 27,000,000 m3 (21, 889 acre⋅ft) is active (or useful) for power generation. The installed capacity of the power station is 800 MW. Construction was started in 1976, and the first electricity was supplied in 1981.

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

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