Explore: Sanmenxia Reservoir (china)

Soviet engineers recommended a dam at the Sanmenxia site. Original plans for the dam called for a maximum reservoir level 360 m (1,181 ft) above sea level

Below are the reservoirs (artificial lakes) in the world with a surface area exceeding 500 km2 (190 sq mi). Reservoirs can be formed conventionally, by

Dams and reservoirs in China are numerous and have had a profound effect on the country's development and people. According to the World Commission on

Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities, with a total

County, but was demolished in the 1950s to make way for the Sanmenxia Dam and reservoir. Chinese civilization first grew up along the Wei, Luo, and Yellow

capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's most populous national capital city as well as China's second largest city

line. During the same time, in Henan the line near Sanmenxia was re-routed due to the Sanmenxia Reservoir Project. The Zhengzhou to Shangqiu section was converted

Zhumadian to the east, Pingdingshan to the northeast, Luoyang to the north, Sanmenxia to the northwest, the province of Shaanxi to the west, and the province

classification of a reservoir by volume is not as straightforward as it may seem. As the name implies, water is held in reserve by a reservoir so it can serve

became the spearhead of China's effort to develop its western regions and to coordinate the resettlement of residents from the reservoir areas of the Three