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Cahora Bassa Dam

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Cahora Bassa Dam

Hydroelectric plant in west Mozambique, created as a result of the damming of the Zambezi River to form a reservoir 230 km/144 mi long. The dam is 171 m/560 ft high and 303 m/994 ft wide. Cahora Bassa has a generating capacity of 2,075 MW, supplying power to Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.



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Instead, electricity is primarily supplied to mining and agricultural industries, such as is the case of Zambia's Kariba, and Mozambique's Cahora Bassa Dam.
Damnation for Africa's big dams? Huge, multi-billion-dollar dams are ... by Sharife, Khadija / African Business
the company that operates the Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River in the western Mozambican province of Tete, won a tender advertised in March this year by the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (
Malawi: power importation deal takes shape: the problem of Malawi's ... by Gamma, Hobbs / African Business
The funding will also cover the cost of dismantling 260 irreparable towers, de-mining and bush clearing along the 932km line between the Cahora Bassa Dam and the Apollo conversion power station in South Africa.
New funding for Cahora Bassa line by Misser, Francois / African Business
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