Hirkan | |
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  Hirkan | |
| Coordinates: 38°39′36″N48°48′24″E / 38.66000°N 48.80667°E | |
| Country |  Azerbaijan |
| Rayon | Lankaran |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+5 (AZT) |
Hirkan (known as Avrora until 1999) [1] is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,781.[ citation needed ]
The Tuolumne River flows for 149 miles (240 km) through Central California, from the high Sierra Nevada to join the San Joaquin River in the Central Valley. Originating at over 8,000 feet (2,400 m) above sea level in Yosemite National Park, the Tuolumne drains a rugged watershed of 1,958 square miles (5,070 km2), carving a series of canyons through the western slope of the Sierra. While the upper Tuolumne is a fast-flowing mountain stream, the lower river crosses a broad, fertile and extensively cultivated alluvial plain. Like most other central California rivers, the Tuolumne is dammed multiple times for irrigation and the generation of hydroelectricity.
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Astara District is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the south-east of the country and belongs to the Lankaran-Astara Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Lankaran, Lerik, as well as the Ardabil and Gilan provinces of Iran. Its capital and largest city is Astara. As of 2020, the district had a population of 110,000.
Khadakwasla Dam is a dam on the Mutha River 21 km (13 mi) from the centre of the city of Pune in Maharashtra, India. The dam created a reservoir known as Khadakwasla Lake which is the main source of water for Pune and its suburbs.
Lankaran District is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the south-east of the country and belongs to the Lankaran-Astara Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Astara, Lerik, Masally, and Neftchala. Its capital and largest city is Lankaran, although the city is technically not part of the district and is subordinate to the Republic. As of 2022, the district had a population of 232,000.
The Mettur Dam is one of the largest dams in India and also the largest in Tamil Nadu, located across the river Kaveri where it enters the plains. Built in 1934, it took 9 years to complete. Maximum height and width of the dam are 214 and 171 feet, respectively. The dam receives inflows from its own catchment area, Kabini Dam and Krishna Raja Sagara Dams located in Karnataka. There is a park at the base of the dam called Ellis Park maintained by the Tamil Nadu Public Works Department. It provides irrigation and drinking water facilities for more than 12 districts of Tamil Nadu and hence is revered as the life and livelihood-giving asset of Tamil Nadu.
San Luis Dam is a major earth-filled dam in Merced County, California, which forms San Luis Reservoir, the largest off-stream reservoir in the United States. The dam and reservoir are located in the Diablo Range to the east of Pacheco Pass and about 10 miles (16 km) west of Los Banos. San Luis Dam, a jointly-owned state and federal facility, stores more than 2 million acre feet (2.5 km3) of water for the California State Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project. Although the dam is located in the valley of San Luis Creek, the majority of its water comes from man-made aqueducts which are supplied from other rivers in Northern California.
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Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is a masonry dam across the Krishna River at Nagarjuna Sagar which straddles the border between Palnadu district in Andhra Pradesh and Nalgonda district in Telangana. The dam provides irrigation water to the districts of Palnadu, Guntur, Nalgonda, Prakasam, Khammam, Krishna, and parts of West Godavari. It is also a source of electricity generation for the national grid.
The Tinaroo Dam, officially the Tinaroo Falls Dam, is a major ungated concrete gravity dam with a central ogee spillway across the Barron River located on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia. The dam's purpose includes irrigation for the Mareeba-Dimbulah Irrigation Scheme, water supply, hydroelectricity, and recreation. Completed between 1953 and 1958, the dam creates the impounded reservoir, Lake Tinaroo.
Eucumbene Dam is a major gated earthfill embankment dam with an overflow ski-jump and bucket spillway with two vertical lift gates across the Eucumbene River in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. The dam's main purpose is for the generation of hydro-power and is one of the sixteen major dams that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia between 1949 and 1974 and now run by Snowy Hydro.
Hirakud Dam is built across the Mahanadi River, about 15 kilometres (9 mi) from Sambalpur in the state of Odisha in India. It is the longest earthen dam in the world. Behind the dam extends a lake, Hirakud Reservoir, 55 km (34 mi) long. It is one of the first major multipurpose river valley projects started after India's independence. Hirakud Reservoir was declared a Ramsar site on 12 October 2021.
Diamer-Bhasha Dam is a concreted-filled gravity dam, in the preliminary stages of construction, on the River Indus between Kohistan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Diamer district in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan administered Kashmir. Its foundation stone was laid by the then Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1998. The dam site is situated near a place called "Bhasha", hence the name which is 40 km downstream of Chilas town and 315 km from Tarbela Dam. The eight million acre feet (MAF) reservoir with 272-metre height will be the tallest roller compact concrete (RCC) dam in the world.
Maharana Pratap Sagar, also known as Pong Reservoir or Pong Dam Lake is a large reservoir in Fatehpur, Jawali and Dehra tehsil of Kangra district of the state of Himachal Pradesh in India. It was created in 1975, by building the highest earthfill dam in India on the Beas River in the wetland zone of the Siwalik Hills. Named in the honour of Maharana Pratap (1540–1597), the reservoir or the lake is a well-known wildlife sanctuary and one of the 49 international wetland sites declared in India by the Ramsar Convention. The reservoir covers an area of 24,529 hectares, and the wetlands portion is 15,662 hectares.
Jayakwadi dam is an earthen dam located on Godavari river at the site of Jayakwadi village in Paithan taluka of Aurangabad district in Maharashtra, India. It is a multipurpose project. The water is mainly used to irrigate agricultural land in the drought-prone Marathwada region of the state. It also provides water for drinking and industrial usage to nearby towns and villages and to the municipalities and industrial areas of Aurangabad and Jalna districts. The surrounding area of the dam has a garden and a bird sanctuary.
Sly Park Dam is located near Pollock Pines, California in the United States. The dam impounds Sly Park Creek and Hazel Creek, natural tributaries of the North Fork Cosumnes River, to form a 41,000 acre-foot (51,000 dam3), 650-acre (260 ha) reservoir called Jenkinson Lake. It was constructed as part of the American River Division of the Central Valley Project to provide irrigation water to a portion of El Dorado County, California. The dam was begun in May 1953, with clearing operations, and was completed in mid 1955.
The Oyan River Dam is in Abeokuta North local government area of Ogun State in the West of Nigeria, about 20 km north west of the state capital Abeokuta. The dam crosses the Oyan River, a tributary of the Ogun River. It is used primarily to supply raw water to Lagos and Abeokuta, but has potential for use in irrigation and power generation.
The Selaulim Dam is located on the Selaulim River, a tributary of the Zuari River in Goa, India, is an integral component of the Selaulim Irrigation Project which envisages benefits of irrigation and drinking water supply. The dam is a composite earth+masonry dam of 42.7 metres (140 ft) height with a water spread area of 24 km2 (9.3 sq mi).
The Bhadra Dam or Lakkavalli Dam, which has created the Bhadra Reservoir, is located on the Bhadra River a tributary of Tungabhadra River. Bhadra Dam is located in the border of Bhadravathi and Tarikere, in the western part of Karnataka in India. The benefits derived from the reservoir storage are irrigation with gross irrigation potential of 162,818 hectares, hydro power generation of 39.2 MW, drinking water supply and industrial use. The dam commissioned in 1965 is a composite earth cum masonry structure of 59.13 metres (194.0 ft) height with length of 1,708 metres (5,604 ft) at the crest level, which submerges a land area of 11,250.88 hectares.
Lankaran-Astara Economic Region is one of the 14 economic regions of Azerbaijan. It borders Iran to the south and west, Caspian Sea to the east and Shirvan-Salyan Economic Region to the north. The region consists of the districts of Jalilabad, Astara, Lerik, Lankaran, Masally and Yardimli. It has an area of 6,070 square kilometres (2,340 sq mi). Its population was estimated to be at 953.6 thousand people in January 2021.
Hirkan (former name: Aurora) is a settlement in the administrative territorial unit of the Lankaran district of the Republic of Azerbaijan. By the resolution No. 708-IQ of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated October 5, 1999, the settlement of Avrora was named as the Hirkan settlement.
Contents • 1History • 2 About • 3 Population and territory • 4 Nature and economy • 5 References • 6 See also History During the USSR, this was the state farm that produced the most tea in Lankaran. During the USSR, it was called "Avrora Tea State Farm" where most of the tea production throughout Lankaran district had been performed. In 1934, it was named Aurora upon honor of the cruiser "Avrora" of the Baltic fleet, and a tea growing state farm “Avrora" was established and thus the foundation of the settlement was laid. It is located in the foothills . In 1964, Hyrkana was granted the status of a city-type settlement.[3] Khanbulanachay reservoir was constructed this settlement. The development of tea growing was accelerated in 1970-1980, in order to meet the need for irrigation of tea plantations, the Khanbulanachay reservoir with a capacity of 52 million m³ (cubic meters) was built on the Basharu river in Lankaran region in 1976, which is still stands out for its robustness. The construction of the dam started in 1967 and was commissioned in 1977. Its water is widely used for irrigation during summer. During the construction of the reservoir, a large forest area remined under ewater, where a village was completely submerged. A large lake has formed in the valley , water, fishing has also developed in this lake. When the water level recedes, one can see the houses and their contents remain as they are, except that the houses are filled with mud. There are also old tractors and other machinery that are under water. There was also a cemetery here, but during the construction of the dam, they removed the bodies from there and buried them elsewhere but the headstones of the graves remained. Thousands of trees were submerged.Khanbulanachay reservoir was constructed this settlement. The development of tea growing was accelerated in 1970-1980, in order to meet the need for irrigation of tea plantations, the Khanbulanachay reservoir with a capacity of 52 million m³ (cubic meters) was built on the Basharu river in Lankaran region in 1976, which is still stands out for its robustness. The construction of the dam started in 1967 and was commissioned in 1977. Its water is widely used for irrigation during summer. During the construction of the reservoir, a large forest area remined under ewater, where a village was completely submerged. A large lake has formed in the valley , water, fishing has also developed in this lake. When the water level recedes, one can see the houses and their contents remain as they are, except that the houses are filled with mud. There are also old tractors and other machinery that are under water. There was also a cemetery here, but during the construction of the dam, they removed the bodies from there and buried them elsewhere but the headstones of the graves remained. Thousands of trees were submerged. Population and territory[edit | edit source] According to the information available in 2020, the settlement has a population of 3,126 people. The majority of the population, almost 90%, is Talysh people (ironing speaking people native to the region) . Russians also lived in the settlement, but most of them left the settlement. This was one of the largest tea state farms in Azerbaijan, and now more than 99% of those tea bushes have been replaced by houses or bushes. Currently, tea growing is partially developed in the settlement. The population of the settlement is mainly engaged in citrus plants, agriculture and animal husbandry. [show source]
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