MOROCCO / المغرب - ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ
Al Massira Dam.
Stamp issued on 17.12.1981.
Face value: 0.60 Moroccan dirham.
Design: M. Bouaanani.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 40 x 28 mm.
Catalogs
- Michel No. 976.
- Scott No. 504.
- StampWorld No. 987.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 590.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 902.
The Al
Massira Dam (سد المسيرة) is a gravity dam, of 82 m (269 ft) high and 390 m
(1,280 ft) long, located 70 km (43 mi) south of Settat on the Oum Er-RbiaRiver, in Settat Province. Completed in 1979, the dam provides water for the
irrigation of over 100,000 hectares of farmland in the Doukkala-Abda region. The
dam's hydroelectric power plant, commissioned in 1980, generates 221 gigawatt-hours
(800 TJ) on average annually. The 14 km2 (5.40 sq mi) reservoir is also
considered an area of birdlife interest by the Ramsar Convention.
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