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Lake Nasser


The Aswan dam or Sadd el-Ali, of its Egyptian name, is a colossal work and one of most impressive in the world in this domain. Thick of 980 metres at the base, of 40 metres at the top, it makes 3 600 metres length and 111 metres in height. As for the artificial lake that it created, the lake Nasser, with 500 km length of which 150 belong to Sudan, over a width going from 10 to 30 km, it is by its capacity of volume of water (157 billion m3) the second of the world after that of the Zambezi.

Lake Nasser