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Hamahara Dam

dam in Shimane Prefecture, Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ11557560 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hamahara Dam is a gravity dam located in Shimane Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for power production. The catchment area of the dam is 3000 km2. The dam impounds about 149 ha of land when full and can store 11200 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was completed in 1953.

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“Hamahara Dam” enters the record as dam in Shimane Prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hamahara, Shimane and Prefecture can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1953—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hamahara, Shimane and Prefecture.
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“Hamahara Dam” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hamahara, Shimane and Prefecture provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11557560. Authority coordinates are 35.041, 132.599. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1953.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hamahara Dam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.