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Kurit Dam

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  • Itaipú Dam
    In dam: Early dams of East Asia

    …the Kebar Dam and the Kurit Dam represented the world’s first large-scale thin-arch dams. The Kebar and Kurit dams were built early in the 14th century by Il-Khanid Mongols; the Kebar Dam reached a height of 26 metres (85 feet), and the Kurit Dam, after successive heightenings over the centuries,…

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