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Gove Dam

Huambo Province, Angola

The 2850th largest power station in the world

60 MW · Capacity

The Gove Dam is an embankment dam on the Kunene River about 75 km (47 mi) south of Huambo in Huambo Province, Angola. The purpose of the dam is to control floods and generate hydroelectric power. It has a power generating capacity of 60 megawatts (80, 000 hp) each) (three turbines of 20 megawatts (27, 000 hp) each), enough to power over 30,000 homes.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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