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Map ref. Notes Kariba Dam: Kariba: Mashonaland West: Zambezi river: 1959: 160 368 1] Tokwe Mukorsi Dam ... Claw Dam: Zimbabwe: Mashonaland West: Muzvezve river:
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Sebakwe Dam is a dam in the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe. It was built in 1957 and owned by the Zimbabwe government. It is across Sebakwe River in the Sanyati Catchment Area. It has a full capacity of 266 megalitres which makes it one of the largest inland dams of Zimbabwe. It is 8 kilometres long and its maximum width is 2.5 kilometres; The ...
The Kariba Dam is a double curvature concrete arch dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe. The dam stands 128 metres (420 ft) tall and 579 metres (1,900 ft) long. [1] The dam forms Lake Kariba, which extends for 280 kilometres (170 mi) and holds 185 cubic kilometres (150,000,000 acre⋅ft) of water.
The Tokwe Mukosi Dam is a concrete-face rock-fill dam on the Tokwe River, just downstream of its confluence with the Mukosi River, about 72 kilometres (45 mi) south of Masvingo in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe. [1] It is 90.3 metres (296 ft) tall and creates a 1,750,000,000 m 3 (1,420,000 acre⋅ft) reservoir, the largest inland dam in the country.
1.41 Zimbabwe. 2 Asia. Toggle Asia subsection. 2.1 Central. 2.1.1 ... Tarbela Dam, Pakistan (the largest earth-filled dam in the world and also the largest by ...
It is the only major dam on the Mazowe River. [2] The concrete dam was built by the British civil contractor Pauling & Co. and was raised by 3 metres (9.8 ft) in 1961 by drilling into the foundation rock and installing post-tensioned tendons into the concrete. It is 37 metres (121 ft) high and 163 metres (535 ft) long, with overflow spillways ...
Osborne Dam is an earth embankment dam, creating a reservoir with a surface area of 2,600 hectares, storing 400,000 megalitres on the Odzi River, a tributary of the Save River, in Zimbabwe The catchment area is 1,392 km² the embankment is 66 metres high, crest length 1,007 metres and the volume of earth in the embankment is 5.1 million cubic metres.