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Shimenkan Dam

The 928th tallest dam in the world

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The Shimenkan Dam is an arch dam on the Lixian River, straddling the border between Ning'er and Mojiang County in Yunnan Province, China. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and its power station has an installed capacity of 130 MW. Construction began in 2007 and the dam was complete in 2010. The dam is 116 m (381 ft) tall and creates a reservoir with a capacity of 197,000,000 m3 (159, 710 acre⋅ft). It is the second dam in the Lixian River cascade.

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