The greatest dam of Cyprus, is the one in the Kouris river. It has a height of 110 metres and a length of 550 metres, its volume capacity is 115,000,000 cubic metres, and it creates a lake of 3,6 squared kilometres.
It was being built for 4 years and a village and a church had to be abandoned since they got sunk in the lake.
Apart from the Kouris’ river waters Limnatis’ and Kriou’s rivers waters exude in the dam as well. It is enriched with the waters of the Arminou dam and the Diorizos river, that has a 14 kilometre tunnel and an underground pipe of 1.6 kilometres.
It only overflowed once from the day it was opened in 1989, on the 4th of March 2004 at noon. The bad aqueous policy of the government emptied the dam, resulting to its volume today bieng at a minimum, even though waters coming from five rivers exude in it.
Do not try to walk on the empty basin of the dam, if you do not know the stones’ behaviour well. Stones that may seem stable can be loose and may retreat, with you ending up in mud.
