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This dataset is developed as part of a GIS-based information system on water resources and use for the African continent. It has been published in the framework of the AQUASTAT Programme of the Land and Water Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( http://www.fao.org/nr/aquastat ).

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This dataset is described extensively on the website https://www.fao.org/aquastat/en/databases/dams . On this website, the dataset is also published in Excel to facilitate the publication of information on dams without geographical co-ordinates. It is accompanied by an explanatory document that provides specific information about the references used, and brief notes on the more complicated dams. The shapefile consists of the following information: GIS generated codes (FID); coordinates in decimal degrees (DDLONG, DDLAT); 'coordinates' broken down into eight codes (LATDIR with an N or an S for North or South, LATDEG, LATMIN and LATSEC for degrees, minutes and seconds latitude and LONGDIR with an W or E for West or East and LONGDEG, LONGMIN and LONGSEC for degrees minutes and seconds longitude); items described in details on the website, such as river basin and administrative unit; completion date; height; surface area; main purpose.

This dataset served also as a basis for the Global reservoirs and dams (GRanD) database, which resulted in the article: Lehner, B., Reidy Liermann, C., Revenga, C., Vörösmarty, C., Fekete, B., Crouzet, P., Döll, P., Endejan, M., Frenken, K., Magome, J., Nilsson, C., Robertson, J., Rödel, R., Sindorf, N., Wisser, D. 2011. High resolution mapping of the world’s reservoirs and dams for sustainable river flow management. Published in the Journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

For a wider distribution and to support other projects at FAO this map is also distributed in a DVD as part of a publication entitled: Jenness, J., Dooley, J., Aguilar-Manjarrez, J., Riva, C. African Water Resource Database. GIS-based tools for inland aquatic resource management. 2. Technical manual and workbook. CIFA Technical Paper. No. 33, Part 2. Rome, FAO. 2007. 308 p.

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