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Largest Dams B. in The Philippines San Roque Dam

The San Roque Dam is the largest dam in the Philippines, standing 200 meters tall and spanning nearly 2 kilometers long. It impounds a 12.8 square kilometer reservoir on the Agno River, storing seasonal runoff to generate power and irrigation. Magat Dam is also one of the largest dams in the country, built on the Magat River to irrigate 85,000 hectares of land, provide flood control, and power generation. Pantabangan Dam is an earth-fill dam on the Pampanga River in Nueva Ecija that controls floods, supplies irrigation water, and generates hydroelectricity via its large reservoir, considered one of the largest in Southeast Asia.

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Largest Dams B. in The Philippines San Roque Dam

The San Roque Dam is the largest dam in the Philippines, standing 200 meters tall and spanning nearly 2 kilometers long. It impounds a 12.8 square kilometer reservoir on the Agno River, storing seasonal runoff to generate power and irrigation. Magat Dam is also one of the largest dams in the country, built on the Magat River to irrigate 85,000 hectares of land, provide flood control, and power generation. Pantabangan Dam is an earth-fill dam on the Pampanga River in Nueva Ecija that controls floods, supplies irrigation water, and generates hydroelectricity via its large reservoir, considered one of the largest in Southeast Asia.

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Largest Dams
B. In the philippines
San Roque Dam
The San Roque Dam, operated under San Roque Multipurpose Project (SRMP) is a
200-meter-tall, 1.2 kilometer long embankment dam on the Agno River. It is the
largest dam in the Philippines and sixteenth largest in the world (see List of largest
dams in the world). It spans the municipalities of San Manuel and San Nicolas,
Pangasinan, nearly 200 km north of Metro Manila.
The dam impounds a reservoir with a surface area of about 12.8 square kilometers
extending North into the municipality of Itogon, Benguet. A gated spillway
protects the dam from overtopping. Each wet season, the run-off is stored for later
release via water turbines to generate power and irrigate crops.

Agno River is the third largest river in the Philippines with a total length of 221
kilometers and a drainage basin at the Project site of 1,225 square kilometers. The
river originates in the Cordillera Mountains, initially flows from north to south,
divides into several channels in the flat central plain of Luzon and meanders
westerly through the provinces of Pangasinan and Tarlac before emptying into the
Lingayen Gulf
Magat Dam
Magat Dam is a large rock-fill dam in the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The
dam is on the Magat River, a major tributary of Cagayan River. Construction of the
dam started in 1975 and was completed in 1982. Magat Dam is one of the largest
dams in the Philippines. It is a multi-purpose dam which is used primarily for
irrigating about 85,000 hectares (210,000 acres) of agricultural lands,[1] flood
control, and power generation through the Magat Hydroelectric Power Plant.

The water stored in the reservoir is enough to supply about two months of normal
energy requirements.

Pantabangan Dam
Pantabangan Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Pampanga River located
in Pantabangan in Nueva Ecija province of the Philippines. The multi-purpose dam
provides water for irrigation and hydroelectric power generation while its reservoir,
Pantabangan Lake, affords flood control. The reservoir is considered one of the
largest in Southeast Asia and also one of the cleanest in the Philippines.
Construction on the dam began in 1971 and it was completed in 1974.

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