Mangla Dam

The Mangla Dam ( Urdu: منگلا بند ) accumulates in the Jhelum Pakistan on to a large reservoir. The dam was 1966/67, built near the town of Mirpur in Azad Kashmir, about 100 km southeast of the capital, Islamabad, and has since then served mainly for irrigation and power generation.

The dam of the dam is - as measured by the volume of the dam - one of the largest of the Earth. There are also slightly different information in other sources as specified in the table number of 65.379 million cubic meters: 65.651, 64.991 and 63.88 million m³. (Probably this is before the increase. ) To main building includes four individual dams with two spillways and five penstocks.

The hydroelectric power plant produces ten turbines with a total of 1000 MW. Also 1250 or 1500 MW are under discussion for the final.

The capacity of the reservoir had been reduced to 1999 by the silting up of about 20%. Therefore, the dam currently is subsequently increased by 138 by 12 m to 150 m. Thereby, the storage levels of the storage content is raised and can be increased by about 18%. The crown length is extended (probably) at 3400 m.

For the construction of the dam about 40,000 people had to be resettled.