Where is the canyon dam?

The Three Gorges Dam is located in Yichang City, Hubei Province.

The Three Gorges Dam is a water conservancy and hydropower project in China. It is located in the tourist area of Three Gorges Dam in Sandouping Town, Yiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province. Located in Xilingxia reach of the main stream of the Yangtze River, at the eastern end of the Three Gorges Reservoir. The control basin covers an area of about 6,543,800 square kilometers. Built in 1994, it integrates flood control, power generation, shipping and water resources utilization. It is the core of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station and the Three Gorges Dam tourist area.

The Three Gorges Dam is mainly composed of water retaining and flood discharging main dam, power generation building, navigation structure and other buildings. The dam body is a concrete gravity dam with a dam axis of 2309.47 meters and a total length of 2335 meters. Dam crest elevation 185m, maximum dam height181m; The normal water level is1.75m, with a total storage capacity of 39.3 billion cubic meters, of which the flood control storage capacity is 221.50 billion cubic meters; The total installed capacity of power generation is 22.5 million kilowatts, and the annual power generation exceeds 654.38+000 billion kWh.

Influence of Three Gorges Dam

After the Three Gorges Dam is completed and impounded, more than 630 kilometers of flooded valley land from Jiangjin, Chongqing to Yichang, Hubei will inundate more than 300 above-ground monuments and 400 underground monuments, including about 800 ancient tombs, ancient sites and ancient buildings. , including national key cultural relics and provincial key cultural relics.

Among the many submerged cultural relics, there are Baiheliang stele, Fuling Dianyidong, Fengdu Ghost Town, Shi Baozhai in Zhongxian County, Xishan Monument in Wanxian County, Zhangfei Temple in Yunyang, Bai Di in Fengjie County, Quyuan Temple in the east of Zigui County, Yuxu Cave in Xiangxi Town, Zigui County, Zhaojun's hometown in Baoping Village, Xingshan County, and Huangling Temple under the dam to commemorate Dayu's water control.

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