The Aswan Low Dam or Old Aswan Dam is a gravity masonry buttress dam on the Nile River in Aswan Egypt. The dam was built at the former first cataract of the Nile and is located about 1000 km up-river and 690 km (direct distance) south-southeast of Cairo. When initially constructed between 1899 and 1902 nothing of its scale had ever been attempted; on completion it was the largest masonry dam in the world.
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