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Birecik Dam is one of the 21 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project of Turkey,is located on the Euphrates river 60 km downstream of Atatürk Dam and 8 km upstream of Birecik town 80 km west of Province of Şanlıurfa in the southeastern region of Turkey
It was purposed for irrigation and energy production.
There is a hydroelectric power plant, established in 2001, at the dam, with a power output of 672MW (six facilities at 112MW each) will generate an average of 2.5 billion kWh per year.
The Birecik dam is a structure constituted of a concrete gravity and clay core sandgravel fill with a height of 62.5 m from the foundation.
- The total catchment area is about 100,000km²
The Birecik project will be realized under the status of Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model.
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Coordinates: 37°03′12″N, 37°53′24″E
