Bhakra Dam

India / Punjab / Nangal /
 dam, hydroelectric power station
Bhakra Dam is a concrete gravity dam across the Sutlej River in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, India. The dam, at 741 ft (226 m), is one of the highest gravity dams in the world (compared to USA's largest Hoover Dam at 743 ft).The length of the dam (measured from the road above it) is 518.25 m and the width is 9.1 m(Crest) and base is 191 m wide. Its huge reservoir known as Govind Sagar can store 9,621 million cubic metre of water.

See www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/india/nh-43-03.jpg and www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/india/nh-43-04.jpg
to see how this area looked before the Bhakra Dam was built on river Satluj.

The map nh-43-03.jpg shows the location of the original Bhakra village that has now been submerged in the lake formed behind the dam.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhakra_Dam
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Coordinates:   31°24'39"N   76°26'0"E

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