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Xiluodu Dam - Displaced People

Xiluodu Dam - Displaced People

Xiluodu Dam displaced around 180,000 people along the Jinsha River (the upper stretch of the Yangtze River). It was built by the Three Gorges Project Corporation as part of a massive twelve dam corridor on the Jinsha River. (Pictured: Jinsha River, courtesy of Vacon.)

About this community

Dam
Xiluodu Dam
River
Jinsha River
Established
221 BCE
Inundated
2005
Population
180,000