Tarbela Dam on the Indus River in Pakistan is the largest earth filled dam in the world and 5th largest by structural volume. It is named after town Tarbela in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, about 50 kilometres northwest of Islamabad. The dam is 485 feet high above the riverbed. The dam was completed in 1976 and was designed to store water from the Indus River for irrigation, flood control, and the generation of hydroelectric power.
