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Sakane Dam

dam in Shimane Prefecture, Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ34914665 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sakane Dam is a gravity dam located in Shimane Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 3.9 km2. The dam impounds about five ha of land when full and can store 790 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1974 and completed in 1992.

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The public source identifies “Sakane Dam” as dam in Shimane Prefecture, Japan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sakane, Shimane and Prefecture.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sakane, Shimane and Prefecture providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q34914665. Authority coordinates are 35.095, 133.112. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sakane 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.