The Meraldene Dam, or Barrage Meraldene, is an embankment dam on the Meraldene River, located at 3 km southwest of Thénia in Boumerdès Province within Kabylia in Algeria.
Thénia, sometimes written as Thenia, with around 40,000 inhabitants, is the chief town in the daïra of the same name, in the wilaya of Boumerdès, in northern Algeria. Historically, the name is a contr