page_title: Shapo Reservoir
section_title: The reservoir
hierarchical_section_title: Shapo Reservoir / Description / The reservoir
caption_attribution_description: English: Shapo Reservoir, Haikou, Hainan, China
context_page_description: The Shapo Reservoir is located 5 km south of Haikou city, Hainan, China, south of Shapo Village at Chengxi Town. The purpose of this reservoir is to prevent floods and conserve water to supply to Haikou. It is roughly 2 km long. A single dam is located at the northeast bank.
  Water released from this dam flows into a spillway and then starts the Meishe River. This narrow river then flows eastward under Longkun Road just south of the Haikou East Railway Station. It then turns north, runs past the Meishe River National Wetland Park, and empties into the Haidian River.
context_section_description: Shapo is a medium-size reservoir being 27.46 km². It can hold 14,190,000 cubic metres of water. The normal water level is 30 metres, and at that level, it contains 11,320,000 cubic metres of water. With the exception of the concrete dam, its banks are entirely natural and mostly tree-lined.
caption: Shapo Reservoir viewed south from the south end of the dam
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