Large dams on Asian and African rivers that produce hydroelectric power, such as the Three Gorges Dam and Xiluodu Dam in China and the Aswan High Dam on the Nile. A facility belongs here when its cited article places a hydroelectric dam in Asia or Africa. It excludes dams in the Americas, which have their own groups, and pumped storage stations, which are filed as storage facilities. The group records where each dam stands, not how it is built.
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Three Gorges Dam (Wikipedia)
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The Three Gorges Dam, officially known as Yangtze River Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges.
Xiluodu Dam (Wikipedia)
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The Xiluodu Dam (simplified Chinese: 溪洛渡大坝; traditional Chinese: 溪洛渡大壩; pinyin: Xīluòdù Dàbà) is an arch dam on the Jinsha River, i.e. the upper course of the Yangtze in China.
Aswan High Dam (Wikipedia)
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The Aswan High Dam, often called simply Aswan Dam, was built between 1960 and 1970 across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt.
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