Aswan Low Dam
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| Construction started | 1898 |
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| Height | 3600 (cm) |
| Opened | 1902 |
| Turbines | Aswan |
| Contractors | John Aird & Co. |
| Ransom & Rapier | |
| Engineers | Benjamin Baker |
| Maurice Fitzmaurice | |
| William Willcocks | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 2206678 |
About Aswan Low Dam
The Aswan Low Dam or Old Aswan Dam is a gravity masonry buttress dam on the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt. The dam was built at the former first cataract of the Nile, and is located about 1000 km up-river and 690 km south-southeast of Cairo.
