Welcome to The Aswan High Dam
We visited the town of Aswan and toured the Aswan High Dam Complex. The Dam was built to control flooding, provide irrigation, and to generate hydroelectricity,
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- Dam started construction 1960
- Dam Opened in 1970
- Built to control flooding on the Nile and to produce electricity
- It is an embankment Dam
- 12,570 feet long
- 3220 feet wide at the base
- 130 feet wide at the crest
- 364 feet tall
- Contains 56,000,000 cubic feet of material
- Reservoir is named Lake Nasser
Aswan High Dam