Tag: Dams in khyber pakhtunkhwa

Tarbela Dam is an earth fill dam on the Indus River in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. It’s the largest earth-filled dam in the world and also the largest by structural volume. It is named after the town Tarbela, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) northwest of Islamabad, at Haripur District. The dam is 485 feet (148 m) high above the Read more...

  Warsak Dam is a mass concrete gravity dam located on the Kabul River approximately 20 km northwest of the city of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Warsak Dam was completed under the Colombo Plan in two phases and financed by the Canadian Government. The first phase was completed in 1960 and consisted of the construction of the dam. Read more...

Bhuttri Dam is next to Bhutri and is located in North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. Bhuttri Dam has a length of 1.97 kilometres. Read more...