Sennar Dam

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Sennar Dam is a major early-20th-century irrigation and hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile in Sudan, crucial for agricultural development in the Gezira region.

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Label Occurrences
Sennar Dam canonical 4
Sennar Reservoir 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf gravity dam
hydroelectric dam
infrastructure project
irrigation dam
builtBy Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
surface form: Anglo-Egyptian Sudan administration
constructionStartDate 1919
continent Africa
country Sudan
designedBy British engineers
enablesIrrigationOf Gezira Scheme
surface form: Gezira agricultural scheme

millions of feddans of farmland
engineeringType masonry and concrete gravity structure
hasPowerPlant yes
hasSpillway yes
height about 40 meters
historicalPeriod Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
surface form: Anglo-Egyptian Sudan era
impact expansion of irrigated agriculture in central Sudan
regulation of Blue Nile seasonal flows
installedCapacity about 15 megawatts
length about 3,000 meters
locatedInCountry Sudan
locatedInRegion Gezira
locatedNear Sennar State
surface form: Sennar
locatedOn Blue Nile
managedBy Sudanese authorities
material concrete
nearCity Sennar State
surface form: Sennar

Wad Medani
notableFor being one of the earliest large dams on the Blue Nile
openingDate 1925
ownership Government of Sudan
partOf Nile River basin infrastructure
powerPlantType hydroelectric power station
primaryWaterUser Gezira Scheme
purpose flood control
hydroelectric power generation
irrigation
relatedProject Gezira Scheme
relatedRiverSystem Nile
reservoirCapacity about 0.9 cubic kilometres
reservoirName Sennar Dam self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sennar Reservoir
riverCrossed Blue Nile
significance key infrastructure for Sudanese cotton production
major early-20th-century irrigation project on the Nile
status operational
supportsActivity agricultural development in Gezira region
waterSource seasonal Blue Nile flows

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Blue Nile hasDam Sennar Dam
Roseires Dam upstreamFrom Sennar Dam
Sennar Dam reservoirName Sennar Dam self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Sennar Reservoir
Sennar State contains Sennar Dam
Gezira Scheme keyInfrastructure Sennar Dam