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Aswan High Dam

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AddressManteqet as Sad Al Aali, Qism Aswan, Aswan Governorate, Egypt
Construction startedJanuary 9, 1960
Hours Open now
Length3,830 m (12,570 ft)
Maximum water depth180 m (590 ft)
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Date of Upd.
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About Aswan High Dam


The Aswan Dam, or more specifically since the 1960s, the Aswan High Dam, is an embankment dam built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970. Its significance largely eclipsed the previous Aswan Low Dam initially completed in 1902 downstream.

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