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Kihoku-damu

The 875th tallest dam in the world

41.9 m · 137 ft

Kihoku Dam is a gravity dam in Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The dam's surface area stretches to about 72 ha when full and can store 8200 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1979 and completed in 2005.

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

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