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Uchidani Dam

The 410th tallest dam in the world

64 m · 210 ft

Uchitani Dam is a rockfill, hydroelectric dam located in Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan. The catchment area of the dam is 2.4 km2. The dam impounds about 31 ha of land when full and can store 5383 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1970 and completed in 1975.

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