What is Tarbela Dam?
{{nosources|date=November 2012}} [[Image:Tarbela.jpg|thumb|right|250px|]] '''Tarbela Dam''' ({{lang-ur|تربیلا بند}}) is a large [[dam]] on the [[Indus River]] in [[Pakistan]]. The word derives from the name of the former Tarbela village, one of the larger villages at this site chosen for the dam. ==Location== It is located about {{convert|50|km|mi|0|lk=on|abbr=on}} northwest of [[Islamabad]], largely in the jurisdiction in the [[Haripur District]] of the [[Hazara Division]], [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]] province. ==History== The plan for the dam was approved during the regime of the Pakistani dictator and later president General [[Ayub Khan]], in the 1960s. Work went on until its completion in 1974. Many villages were submerged and thousands of people displaced in the process.😎 ==Technical== The dam has a height of {{convert|148|m|ft|0|lk=on|abbr=on}} above the [[river]] bed. It has a [[reservoir]] size of {{convert|250|km2|sqmi|0|lk=on|abbr=on}}. This makes it the largest [[ground|earth]] filled dam in the world. The dam was completed in 1974. It was built to store water from the Indus River for [[irrigation]] and [[flood ]]control, and for creating [[Hydroelectricity|hydro-electric power]].now tli ==Reservoir== The reservoir lake formed by the damming of the Indus here, is Tarbela lake, which is very elongated and spread out over a considerable area. The lake has many channels and is surrounded by wild, high hills and scrub and thorn forests. It is now a place where many species of [[waterfowl]] and [[fish]] are found. [[File:Tarbela dam.jpg|thumb|right|200px|View of lake or reservoir of Tarbela Dam]] {{multistub|geo|Asia}} [[Category:Dams in Asia]] [[Category:buildings and structures in Pakistan]] [[Category:Hydropower]] [[Category:1974 establishments in Asia]] [[Category:1970s establishments in Pakistan]] [[Category:Haripur District]]