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Tienlun Dam (Chinese: 天輪壩; pinyin: Tiānlún Bà) is a concrete gravity dam on the Dajia River in Heping District, Taichung, Taiwan. Built from 1952 to 1956, the dam is the fourth in a cascade of hydroelectric dams along the Dajia River, located upstream from the Ma'an Dam and downstream of the Kukuan Dam.

Map of Tienlun Dam, Heping District, Taichung City, Taiwan 424

The dam is 48.2 m (158 ft) high and 91 m (299 ft) long, with a storage capacity of 590,000 m3 (480 acre·ft) of water. It supplies water to a power station consisting of one 105 megawatt (MW) turbine and four 22.5 MW turbines for a capacity of 195 MW, generating 557 million kilowatt hours per year.

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