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GeoDAR

Georeferenced global Dams And Reservoirs. 22,560 dams and 21,515 reservoir boundaries.

Dams georeferenced from the ICOLD World Register and national inventories, with reservoir polygons, so register attributes such as capacity and purpose can be joined to locations.

Source
Zenodo
Resolution
Points and polygons
Data type
Points and polygons
Time span
Static (v1.1)
Temporal
Static
Access type
Direct download (external)
Formats
Shapefile
Coverage
Global (-180, -90, 180, 90)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Provider page
doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1869-2022

Cite as. Wang, J., et al. (2022). GeoDAR: georeferenced global dams and reservoirs dataset for bridging attributes and geolocations. Earth System Science Data, 14, 1869–1899. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1869-2022

Access

linkPaper with data links (Zenodo)

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1869-2022

curl "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/geodar/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record