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Silvan Dam

Kulp, Turkey

The 2217th largest power station in the world

160 MW · Capacity

Silvan Dam is an embankment concrete-face rock-fill currently under construction on the Batman River in the district of Silvan, Diyarbakır Province in southeastern Turkey. It is part of the Southeastern Anatolia Project and located upstream of the Batman Dam.

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

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