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Latyan Dam

Lavasanat District, Iran

The 3000th largest power station in the world

45 MW · Capacity

Latyan Dam (Sadd-e Latyān), formerly Farahnaz Pahlavi Dam, is a buttress dam on the Jajrood River, located less than 25 km from Tehran, south of the city of Lavasan. Constructed between 1963 and 1967, it is one of the main sources of water for the Tehran metropolitan region. The first generator in the dam's 45 MW hydroelectric power station was commissioned on 17 March 1969, the second on 13 April 1987.

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