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Uzunçayır Dam

Turkey

The 2707th largest power station in the world

82 MW · Capacity

The Uzunçayır Dam is an embankment dam on the Munzur River, located 14 km (9 mi) south of Tunceli in Tunceli Province, Turkey. Constructed between 1994 and 2009, the development was backed by the Turkish State Hydraulic Works. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and it supports an 84 MW power station.

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

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