Koynanagar
Sign in to saveKoynanagar is a town in Maharashtra, India. It is situated on the Chiplun-Sangli state highway on the banks of Koyna River. The town is small but famous for Koyna Dam and the Koyna Hydroelectric Project which is the largest completed hydroelectric project of India. An earthquake in 1967 flattened the city and left 180 people dead.
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- Locality
- Koynanagar
- Region
- Maharashtra
- Country
- India
- Population
- 28,091
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Satara district
- Elevation
- 746
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
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Koynanagar is a town in Maharashtra, India. It is situated on the Chiplun-Sangli state highway on the banks of Koyna River. The town is small but famous for Koyna Dam and the Koyna Hydroelectric Project which is the largest completed hydroelectric project of India. An earthquake in 1967 flattened the city and left 180 people dead.
Koyna Nagar is nestled in the Western Ghats, about above sea level, and hence has a tolerable climate for most of the year.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Koynanagar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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