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Oymapinar Dam is an arch dam built on the Manavgat river in Turkey in 1984. It is an arch dam in design, 185 m in height, built to generate hydroelectric power.[1]

Oymapinar Dam
Location	Antalya Province, Turkey
Coordinates	36°54′31.06″N 31°31′54.10″E
Opening date	1984
Dam and spillways
Impounds	Manavgat River
Height	185 m
Reservoir
Total capacity	676 000 m³
Surface area	4.7 km²

Oymapınar Dam is located 12 km north of Manavgat Waterfall. It is an artificial, freshwater dam with a capacity of 300 million cubic meters.[2] It is 23 km upstream of Manavgat town 40 km east of city of Antalya in southern Turkey and located on the Manavgat River which runs into the Mediterranean.

Description

The dam has four underground turbines with a total capacity of 540 megawatts. When built in 1984 it was the third largest dam in Turkey. As more dams have been built, it is the fifth largest.[2]

Because of the arch design, the force of water pushing against the dam compacts the dam and strengthens it. The weight of the dam structure pushes it down firmly into the underlying rock. This design is ideal for dams built in rocky narrow gorges.[3]

Construction

The dam was designed in the USSR and built by Bilfinger Berger and completed in 1984.[4]

Technical data

• Purpose - Energy
• Embankment type - Concrete arch
• Storage volume - 300 million m³
• Crest length - 454 m
• Spillway - 2,800 m³/s
• Bottomoutlet - 350 m³/s
• Power - 540 MW
• Annual production - 1620 GWh/year

See also

• Tilkiler Cave

Gallery

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  Oymapinar Dam seen from below.
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  Oymapinar Dam.
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  Oymapinar Dam.

References

External links

• About Side and Manavgat
• Dam statistics
• Dam Information^{[permanent dead link]}
• Dam Pics

На других языках

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[de] Oymapınar-Talsperre

Die Oymapınar-Talsperre am Manavgatfluss liegt im Taurusgebirge in der Türkei, etwa 80 km östlich von Antalya und 25 km landeinwärts von der Küste. Sie ist die größte Talsperre in der Region.

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- [en] Oymapinar Dam

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[fr] Barrage d'Oymapınar

Le barrage d'Oymapınar est un barrage de Turquie. Il est situé immédiatement en amont du barrage de Manavgat.

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[ru] Оймапынар

Плоти́на Оймапынар (тур. Oymapınar Barajı ve Hidroelektrik Santrali) — крупное высокогорное гидросооружение в Турции.

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