Longtan Dam ( simplified Chinese : 龙滩大坝 ; traditional Chinese : 龍灘大壩 ; pinyin : Lóngtān Dàbà ) is a large roller-compacted concrete (RCC) gravity dam on the Hongshui River in Tian'e County of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region , China , a tributary of the Xi River and the Pearl River . The dam is 216.2 metres (709.3 ft) high and 849 m (2,785 ft) long; it is the tallest of its type in the world. The dam is intended for hydroelectric power production, flood control and navigation . The dam contains seven surface spillways, two bottom outlets and an underground power station . The Longtan ship lift , part of the dam complex, will be the tallest ship lift system in the world.
6-4072: Longtan may refer to several places: Burma [ edit ] Longtan, Langhko , Burma Mainland China [ edit ] Longtan Dam (龙滩大坝), dam in Guangxi Longtan District, Jilin City (龙潭区), Jilin City, Jilin Longtan Park (龙潭公园), Beijing Subdistricts (龙潭街道) Longtan, Guiyang , a subdistrict of Guiyang County , Hunan . Longtan Subdistrict, Beijing , in Dongcheng District Longtan Subdistrict, Nanjing , in Qixia District Longtan Subdistrict, Jilin City , in Longtan District, Jilin City Longtan Subdistrict, Chengdu , in Chenghua District Towns (龙潭镇) Longtan, Huoqiu County , Anhui Longtan, Fuling District , Chongqing Longtan, Youyang County , in Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County , Chongqing Longtan, Fujian , in Yongding County Longtan, Jiexi County , Guangdong Longtan, Longmen County , Guangdong Longtan, Bobai County , Guangxi Longtan, Henan , in Tanghe County Longtan, Huayuan County , Hunan Longtan, Jiahe County , Hunan Longtan Town, Taoyuan , Hunan Longtan, Xupu , in Xupu County , Hunan Longtan, Jiangxi , in Gao'an Longtan, Xiuyan County , in Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County , Liaoning Longtan, Zigong , in Gongjing District , Zigong, Sichuan Longtan, Butuo County , Sichuan Longtan, Xuanwei , Yunnan Townships (龙潭乡) Longtan Township, Anhui , in Qianshan County , Anhui Longtan Township, Chongqing , in Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County Longtan, Zhuzhou Longtan Township, Hunan , in Zhuzhou County Longtan Township, Liaoning , in Beipiao Longtan Township, Guangyuan , in Lizhou District , Guangyuan, Sichuan Longtan Township, Qu County , in Qu County , Sichuan Longtan Township, Mojiang County , in Mojiang Hani Autonomous County , Yunnan Longtan Township, Yangbi County , in Yangbi Yi Autonomous County , Yunnan Longtan Township, Yuanjiang County , in Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai Autonomous County , Yunnan Longtan Li and Dai Ethnic Township (龙潭彝族傣族乡), Simao District , Pu'er, Yunnan Taiwan [ edit ] Longtan District, Taoyuan (龍潭區), district in Taoyuan Longtan Lake ,
12-751: A lake in Longtan District (for which the district was named) Vietnam [ edit ] See Long Tân (disambiguation) Other uses [ edit ] Long Tan (footballer) (born 1988), Chinese footballer Longtan Dam , a large roller-compacted concrete (RCC) gravity dam on the Hongshui River in Tian'e County of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China See also [ edit ] Longton (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
18-439: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Longtan Dam The dam was planned in the 1950s, but preliminary construction (roads, bridges, river diversion) did not begin until 1940s. Formal construction began on the project July 1, 2001, and the river was diverted by November 2003. A total of 20,000,000 m (706,293,334 cu ft) of material were excavated from
24-403: The dam site. Impounding of the 27,270,000,000 m (22,108,149 acre⋅ft) reservoir began in 2006, and the dam's first of three operational hydroelectric generating units was testing May 2007. In 2009, the last generator became operational and the installed capacity increased to 6,426 MW , its annual generation is estimated at 18.7 TWh . A pair of tunnels diverted the river around
30-424: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Longtan&oldid=832843024 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
36-664: The site of the dam, during construction. The dam will submerge over 300 shoals, which had rendered the upper Hongshui unnavigable. The Longtan ship lift will be able to lift vessels of up to 500 tonnes. Chinese officials assert the dam and ship lift will turn the Hongshui into a "golden waterway" for reaching landlocked Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/countries_regions/Profile_segments/CHN-WR_eng.stm Longtan, Zhuzhou Longtan Township ( simplified Chinese : 龙潭乡 ; traditional Chinese : 龍潭鄉 ; pinyin : Longtan Xiang )
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