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Daibo Dam

The 814th tallest dam in the world

43.5 m · 143 ft

Daibo Dam is a gravity dam located in Yamaguchi prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for flood control. The catchment area of the dam is 15 km2. The dam impounds about 29 ha of land when full and can store 3860 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1969 and completed in 1973.

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

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