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Tawarabara-ike Dam

dam in Ehime Prefecture, Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ112672087 ↗
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Tawarabara-ike Dam is an earthfill dam located in Ehime Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 0.5 km2. The dam impounds about 12 ha of land when full and can store 1000 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1937 and completed in 1942.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tawarabara-ike 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.