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Kurpsai Dam

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Official name
  
Курпсайская ГЭС

Status
  
Operational

Impounds
  
Naryn River

Opened
  
1976

Turbine
  
4

Country
  
Kyrgyzstan

Type of dam
  
Gravity

Height
  
113 m (371 ft)

Impound
  
Naryn River

Kurpsai Dam photoswikimapiaorgp0000527274bigjpg

Similar
  
Toktogul Dam, Fergana Range, Shulbinsk Hydroelectric Power Pl, Chardara Dam, Bukhtarma Hydroelectric Power Pl

The Kurpsai Dam is a gravity dam on the Naryn River in Kyrgyzstan. It is 113 m (371 ft) tall and it creates a 370,000,000 m3 (299,964 acre·ft) reservoir of which 35,000,000 m3 (28,375 acre·ft) is active (or useful) for power generation. The installed capacity of the power station is 800 MW.

Map of Kurpsai Dam, Kyrgyzstan

References

Kurpsai Dam Wikipedia