What is the best known dam?

Hoover Dam is the most famous dam in the US. It was constructed during the Great Depression, beginning in 1931, and was completed in 1936. It was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.



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The oldest operational dam in the world, the Lake Homs Dam in Syria, was built around 1300. The masonry gravity dam is over one mile long, 23 feet high, and creates Lake Homs, which still supplies water to the people of Homs today.

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The Grande Dixence Dam (French pronunciation: [g?ãd diksãs]) is a concrete gravity dam on the Dixence at the head of the Val d'Hérémence in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. At 285 m (935 ft) high, it is the tallest gravity dam in the world, seventh tallest dam overall, and the tallest dam in Europe.

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Kariba Dam, Zimbabwe Kariba Dam is the world's biggest dam based on water storage capacity. Located at the former Kariwa (Kariba) Gorge, the dam creates Lake Kariba, which has a storage capacity of 185 billion cubic metres of water and a surface area of 5,580km2.

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Finland is called ''the land of a thousand lakes,'' but at last count there were 187,888 of them - more lakes in relation to a country's size than any other.

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