Sadd El-Kafara
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| Height | 1400 (cm) |
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| Width (base) | 98 m (322 ft) |
| Width (crest) | 56 m (184 ft) |
| Construction began | ~2650 BC |
| Locations | Helwan |
| Helwan Governorate | |
| Egypt | |
| Total capacity | ~570,000 m3 (20,000,000 cu ft) Est |
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| ID | 3028636 |
About Sadd El-Kafara
Sadd el-Kafara was a masonry embankment dam on Wadi al-Garawi 10 km southeast of Helwan in Helwan Governorate, Egypt. The dam was built in the first half of the third millennium BC by the ancient Egyptians for flood control and is the oldest dam of such size in the world.
