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Business
& Community
Services
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(75
km)
An
artificial lake of eleven square kilometers, Qaraoun was
created by the Litani River Dam in 1959.
The Litani is Lebanon’s largest river, rising near
Baalbeck and flowing for 160 kilometers through the Beqaa
Valley to the coast north of Tyre.
The dam
holding back this major river is 60 meters high and 1,350
meters in length
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A gallery of 6,503 meters carries the water to the
underground hydroelectric station where transformers produce a
maximum of 185 megawatts. The
dam will eventually provide irrigation for 31,000 hectares of
farmland in South Lebanon and 8,000 hectares in the Beqaa
Valley. Visitors are
welcome to the Litani Dam. The
office is at the southern (dam) end of the lake on the left
side. The lake
area has a hotel and a number of restaurants specializing in
fresh trout.
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