Kaptai Dam
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kaptai-dam-179-17788216
title:
Kaptai Dam
text:
Kaptai Dam is on the Karnaphuli River at Kaptai, 65 km (40 mi) upstream from Chittagong in Rangamati District, Bangladesh. It is an earth-fill embankment dam with a reservoir with water storage capacity of 6,477 million cubic metres (5,251,000 acre⋅ft). The primary purpose of the dam and reservoir was to generate hydroelectric power. Construction was completed in 1962, in then-East Pakistan. The generators in the 230 MW (310,000 hp) Karnafuli Hydroelectric Power Station were commissioned between
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description:
Dam in Kaptai, Rangamati District
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaptai_Dam
date created:
2007-02-01T17:19:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T04:24:38Z
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