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Week 38 · 2026English editionRecord

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Place

Atawara Dam

Earthen dam · RA11LH0059

Atawara Dam is an earthen dam on the Kothari in Bhilwara district, Rajasthan, completed in 1961; the National Register of Specified Dams 2025 records it as 10.36 m high above lowest foundation level, a crest length of 2,480 m, with a gross storage capacity of 5.24 million cubic metres (register identifier RA11LH0059).

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Atawara Dam is at 25.3453° N, 74.3475° E, per the register's coordinates.
Atawara Dam is at 25.3453° N, 74.3475° E, per the register’s coordinates. Boundary: DataMeet community maps (divisions dataset, 2011 Census), CC BY 4.0.

Location

Measurements

  • Height above lowest foundation level · 10.36 m

  • Crest length · 2480 m

  • Gross storage capacity · 5.24 MCM

  • Live storage capacity · 5.09 MCM

  • Spillway capacity · 402 m³/s

Source for the figures above

  • National Register of Specified Dams 2025cwc.gov.in

    “"Specified Dam" means a dam constructed before or after the commencement of this Act, which is, — (i) above fifteen metres in height, measured from the lowest portion of the general foundation area to the top of dam”

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Also on Dams of Bhilwara District

Atawara Dam is no. 3 of 30 on this list.