Lijiaxia Dam

Lijiaxia Dam
View from Kanbula National Park to the Lijiaxia Dam
Location: Qinghai , PR China Tributaries: Yellow River Drain: Yellow River
Qinghai , People's Republic of China
Coordinates	36 ° 7 '7 "  N , 101 ° 48' 28"  E Coordinates: 36 ° 7 '7 "  N , 101 ° 48' 28"  E
Data on the structure
Construction time:	1991-2000
Height of the barrier structure :	155 m
Height above foundation level :	165 m (?)
Building volume:	1.26 million m³
Crown length:	414 m
Crown width:	8 m
Base width:	45 m
Power plant output:	2000 MW
Data on the reservoir
Altitude (at congestion destination )	2180  m
Water surface	136.747 km²
Storage space	1648 million m³
Catchment area	136 747  km²
Design flood :	7th 220  m³ / s

The Lijiaxia Dam is a dam with a hydropower plant on the Yellow River (Huang He) in the Chinese province of Qinghai , 73 km downstream from the Laxiwa Dam .

The barrier structure is a double-curved arch dam . For their height one finds the information 155 and 165 m in various sources, for the length in addition to the 414 m given in the table, also 382 or 489 m. Alternatively, the building volume is also given as 2.34 or 3.03 million m³.

The hydropower plant has four turbines with 400 MW each, a fifth was installed later, so that the total nominal output is 2000 MW.

See also

• List of hydropower plants in China
• List of dams in China
• List of the largest dams on earth
• List of the largest reservoirs on earth
• List of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world

Web links

• Chinese National Committee on Large Dams
• Lijiaxia Hydropower Station
• Large Dams in China ("large dams in China")

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Laxiwa. www.chincold.org.cn, accessed October 31, 2017 .