Khramhesi

Khramhesi () is a daba in Tsalka Municipality, in the region of Kvemo Kartli, in Georgia. It is located in the forested gorge of the Khrami river, at 1110 meters above sea level. It was founded in the 1930s for the construction and operation of the Khramhesi-I hydroelectric power station on this site, which is also its main reason for existence. In 2019, Khramhesi was granted urban-type settlement (დაბა, daba) status. It is therefore one of the smallest daba in the country.

==History== In the early 1930s, a hydroelectric cascade was built around the administrative center of Tsalka Municipality, consisting of a reservoir (the Tsalkar Reservoir) and a hydroelectric power station in the Khrami river gorge, about 6 kilometers southeast of Tsalka. In 1934, construction of the hydroelectric power station began and Khramhesi was founded on this site. The hydroelectric power station is located more than 1,100 meters above sea level in the Khrami Gorge and is supplied via pipelines from the Tsalka Reservoir, which is 1,500 meters above sea level. The Chramhesi-I hydroelectric power station was commissioned in December 1947 and has an installed capacity of 3x37.6 MW. In 2019, 63 people worked at the plant.