Sannār Dam

Sannār Dam

dam, The Sudan
also spelled  Sennar Dam,  

      dam impounding the Blue Nile River for irrigation at the town of Sannār in The Sudan. Completed in 1925, it is 9,925 feet (3,025 m) long with a maximum height of 130 feet (40 m) and irrigates cotton and other crops of the plain of al-Jazirāh (Gezira).

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