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Kanda-ohike Dam

dam in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ113100666 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kanda-ohike Dam (Japanese: 神田大池) is an earthfill dam located in Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 8.4 km2. The dam impounds about 5 ha of land when full and can store 550 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was completed in 1989.

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“Kanda-ohike Dam” enters the record as dam in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kanda-ohike, Hiroshima 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—1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kanda-ohike, Hiroshima and Prefecture.
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“Kanda-ohike Dam” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kanda-ohike, Hiroshima 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 Q113100666. Authority coordinates are 34.560, 132.933. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kanda-ohike 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.