The Masjed Soleyman Dam (also known as ''Godar-e Landar Dam'') is a dam in
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
on the
Karun
The Karun (, ) is the Iranian river with the highest water flow, and the country's only navigable river. It is long. The Karun rises in the Zard Kuh mountains of the Bakhtiari district in the Zagros Range, receiving many tributaries, such as ...
river. It is high, has an installed capacity of 2,000 MW, and its
reservoir
A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.
Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...
holds of water. The dam is a rock-fill structure with a vertical clay-core. The dam was built by Iran Water and Power Resources Development Co. and completed in 2002. The power station was built in two 1,000-MW stages. The first stage was complete in 2003 and the second in September 2007. The dam was named after the town of
Masjed-Soleyman, about away. The spillway gates are believed to be the largest of their kind in the world.
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Dams in Iran
Major dam construction started in Iran in the 1950s. Some fourteen large dams were built with the help of foreign engineers and advisors during two decades preceding the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
In the post-revolution era, Iran's dam buildin ...
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Hydroelectric power stations in Iran
Dams in Khuzestan Province
Rock-filled dams
Dams completed in 2002
Dams on the Karun River
2002 establishments in Iran
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