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Kiribaru Dam

The 456th tallest dam in the world

61.3 m · 201 ft

Kiribaru Dam is a gravity dam located in Miyazaki Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 4.2 km2. The dam impounds about 11 ha of land when full and can store 2040 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1990 and completed in 2012.

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

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