Global Information Lookup Global Information

Kurit Dam information


Kurit Dam
Kurit Dam is located in Iran
Kurit Dam
Location of Kurit Dam in Iran
LocationTabas, Tabas County, South Khorasan Province, Iran
Coordinates33°26′11″N 57°14′31″E / 33.43639°N 57.24194°E / 33.43639; 57.24194
Construction began14th century
Dam and spillways
Type of damArch-gravity
ImpoundsKurit River
Height64 metres (210 ft)
Length29 metres (95 ft)
Shāh Abbās Arch near Kurit Dam – 14th century

The Kurit Dam is an arch-gravity dam located 56 km away from Tabas, Iran near the village of Kurit. This was to remain a world record for any type of dam from 1350 until the early twentieth century. [1]

  1. ^ Emami, Kamran (April 2014). "THE HISTORIC KURIT DAM: AN ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE OF WATER WISDOM: THE HISTORIC KURIT DAM: AN ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE OF WATER WISDOM". Irrigation and Drainage. 63 (2): 246–253. doi:10.1002/ird.1848. S2CID 110678502.

and 27 Related for: Kurit Dam information

Request time (Page generated in 0.7932 seconds.)

Kurit Dam

Last Update:

Kurit Dam is an arch-gravity dam located 56 km away from Tabas, Iran near the village of Kurit. This was to remain a world record for any type of dam...

Word Count : 333

Arch dam

Last Update:

35 m (115 ft). Their second dam was built around 1350 and is called the Kurit Dam. After 4 m (13 ft) was added to the dam in 1850, it became 64 m (210 ft)...

Word Count : 1840

Giz Galasi Dam

Last Update:

Giz Galasi Dam (Azerbaijani: Qız Qalası SES, Persian: سد قیز قلعه‌سی) is an embankment dam on the Aras River straddling the international border between...

Word Count : 727

Dam

Last Update:

Band-i-Amir Dam, provided irrigation for 300 villages. Shāh Abbās Arch (Persian: طاق شاه عباس), also known as Kurit Dam, is the thinnest arch dam in the world...

Word Count : 11127

Giz Galasi Reservoir

Last Update:

Qalası su anbarı) is a reservoir on the Aras River, created by the Giz Galasi Dam straddling the international border between Azerbaijan and Iran. The reservoir...

Word Count : 247

List of dams and reservoirs in Iran

Last Update:

Dam Marash Dam Moshampa Dam Band-e Kaisar Boz Dam The Great Hagi Jaffar Dam Jaber Dam Jawid Dam Kebar Dam Kurit Dam Shahi Dam One of Iran's most important...

Word Count : 503

Khoda Afarin Dam

Last Update:

Khoda Afarin Dam (Persian: سد خداآفرین, also spelled as Khodaafarin Dam or Khudafarin Dam) is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Aras River straddling...

Word Count : 635

Eyvashan Dam

Last Update:

The Eyvashan Dam (Persian: سد ایوشان), also spelled Ashavan, is a rock-fill embankment dam on the Horood River about 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of Khorramabad...

Word Count : 64

Amir Kabir Dam

Last Update:

Amir Kabir dam (Persian: سد امیرکبیر), also known as Karaj dam (سد کرج), is a dam on the Karaj River in the Central Alborz mountain range of northern Iran...

Word Count : 459

Mamloo Dam

Last Update:

Dam (Persian: سد ماملو), is a dam in the Central Alborz mountain range of northern Iran near to the Mount Damavand.The reservoir created by the dam has...

Word Count : 171

Upper Gotvand Dam

Last Update:

Upper Gotvand Dam, or simply the Gotvand Dam (Persian: سد گتوند بالا), is an embankment dam on the Karun River about 12 km (7.5 mi) northeast of Gotvand...

Word Count : 1005

South Khorasan province

Last Update:

Hole-in-the-Rock Ferdows Hot Spring Ghal'eh Paeen-Shahr Jameh Mosque of Ferdows Kurit Dam Kushk Complex Qanats of Baladeh Ferdows Nehbandan Citadel Polond Desert...

Word Count : 1551

Dez Dam

Last Update:

Dez Dam (Persian: سد دز), formerly known as Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlavi Dam (Persian: سد محمدرضا شاه پهلوی), before 1979 Revolution, is an arch dam on the...

Word Count : 414

Subiaco Dams

Last Update:

until the construction of the Kurit Dam around 1350. List of Roman dams and reservoirs List of dams and reservoirs Dam failure Roman architecture Roman...

Word Count : 1186

Karkheh Dam

Last Update:

The Karkheh Dam (Persian: سد کرخه) is a large multi-purpose earthen embankment dam built in Iran on the Karkheh River in 2001 by the contractor of Khatam...

Word Count : 465

Alavian Dam

Last Update:

The Alavian Dam and Lake (Persian: سد علویان) is situated on the Sufi Chay river in East Azerbaijan Province, northwestern Iran. It is located about 3...

Word Count : 181

List of archaeological sites by country

Last Update:

hunting ground Khosrowabad Castle Konar Sandal Kul Tepe Jolfa Kul-e Farah Kurit Dam Marlik Matiene Mount Behistun Mount Khajeh Nakhcheer Naqsh-e Rustam Nishapur...

Word Count : 6424

Meghri Dam

Last Update:

The Meghri hydroelectric project (also known as the Meghri Dam or Aras Watershed Dam) is a hydroelectric project planned on the Aras River near Armenia's...

Word Count : 631

Seimare Dam

Last Update:

Seimare Dam (Persian: سد سیمره), also known as Hini Mini or spelled Seymareh, is an arch dam on the Seimare River in Badreh County, Ilam Province, Iran...

Word Count : 344

Doroodzan Dam

Last Update:

Doroodzan Dam (Persian: سد درودزن) is an earthen dam in Fars Province, Iran, about 85 kilometres (53 mi) north of Shiraz.[failed verification] Completed...

Word Count : 225

Shahid Abbaspour Dam

Last Update:

Dam (Persian: سد شهید عباسپور), formerly known as Great Reza Shah Kabir Dam (Persian: سد رضاشاه کبیر) before the 1979 Revolution, is a large arch dam...

Word Count : 336

Bakhtiari Dam

Last Update:

The Bakhtiari Dam is an arch dam currently under construction on the Bakhtiari River within the Zagros Mountains on the border of Lorestan and Khuzestan...

Word Count : 893

Daryan Dam

Last Update:

The Daryan Dam, also spelled Darian (Persian: سد داریان) , is an embankment dam constructed on the Sirvan River just north of Daryan in Paveh County, Kermanshah...

Word Count : 651

Tarik Dam

Last Update:

Tarik Dam (Persian: سد تاریک) is a dam on the Sefīd-Rūd river in the Alborz mountain range, about 32 km (20 mi) south of Rasht in Gilan Province, northern...

Word Count : 327

Sefidrud Dam

Last Update:

Sefidrud Dam (originally named Shahbanu Farah Dam and also known as the Manjil Dam) (Persian: سد سفیدرود) is a buttress dam on the Sefīd-Rūd in the Alborz...

Word Count : 275

Kazemi Dam

Last Update:

Shahid Kazemi Dam (originally named Kourosh Dam and also known as the Shahid Kazemi Bukan Dam and Bukan Dam) is a clay core dam on the Zarrineh River...

Word Count : 394

Jaber Dam

Last Update:

Jaber Dam (from Arabic: سَّد جابر, in Persian: سد جابر), also known as Jabar Dam, is a dam in Kukherd city, southwestern Kukherd District, Hormozgan Province...

Word Count : 260

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net