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 | The Grande Dixence dam, in the canton of Valais in Switzerland, is at 285 metres high one of the worlds tallest dams. It holds back a lake, the Lac des Dix, around 16 km long.
The top of the dam is at an altitude of 2,365 metres in a steep mountain valley. Tunnels bring the water to three power stations in the Rhone valley over 1,800 metres below.
The dam is situat... |  | 09/26/2005 | 653 | 
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 | First work of binational character that joins with the cities of Concordia city (Argentina) and Salto city (Uruguay). It counts on a train bridge that facilitates not only the tourism, but also the commerce.
As a result of the Dam, an artificial lake was formed that is one of the largest lake of Argentina and Latin America. |  | 10/24/2005 | 205 |
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 | Located on the Green River in northeastern Utah and southern Wyoming. This dam creates a reservoir which is used for hydroelectric power. Construction on this dam began in 1958 and was completed in 1964. The dam is 502' high and 1180' long. The crest width of this dam is 27', with a base width of 131'. |  | 01/23/2007 | 309 |
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 | Tallowa Dam is a concrete dam located immediately downstream of the junction of the Kangaroo and Shoalhaven rivers.
The dam collects water from a 5,750 square kilometre catchment. This water is stored in Lake Yarrunga, which is formed by Tallowa Dam.
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 | Rio Grande Airport, in Rio Grande do Sul, south of Brazil. |  | 12/06/2005 | 174 |
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 | Grand Coulee Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington. In the United States, it is the largest electric power producing facility and the largest concrete structure. It is the fifth largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world. The top producing dams are the Three Gorges Dam in China, the Guri Dam in Venezuela, the Itaipu Dam on the border of ... | | 03/04/2009 | 293 |
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 | Woronora Dam collects water from the catchment of the Woronora River, which drains into the dam and then to Botany Bay. The dam supplies water to residents within the Sutherland Shire in Sydney's south.
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 | The construction of this project was started in the year 1948 and was completed in 1963 . It is 740 ft. high above the deepest foundation as straight concrete dam being more than three times the height of Qutab Minar. Bhakra Dam is the highest Concrete Gravity dam in Asia and Second Highest in the world. | | 08/05/2006 | 713 |
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 | The Nurek dam in Tajikistan is 300 meters (984 feet) tall and at the moment (9/2005) the highest dam of the world (the Rogun dam (335 meters / 1,099 feet) still is under construction). |  | 07/31/2005 | 1,469 |
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 | Monte Grande, Elqui valley, Chile. Hometown of the literature nobel priced, Gabriela Mistral. | | 07/18/2005 | 556 |
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 | I've found this dam in Xinjiang. South of Hotan.
On the wall of the dam they are huge words. | | 08/05/2006 | 566 |
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 | During a mix of pics of the lakes of the Obernautal Dam and the Aggertal Dam and the insert of the island from the lake of the Wiehltal Dam a famous commercial was born.
Link: http://www.aerophoto.de/krombacher.htm | | 04/24/2006 | 291 |
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