or
is a long river in
Norway
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and
Sweden
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. The river starts south of the
Hof Finnskog Church in
Solør
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G ...
, Norway and discharges into lake
Mellan-Fryken at
Rottneros in
Värmland
Värmland () is a ''Provinces of Sweden, landskap'' (historical province) in west-central Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Dalsland, Dalarna, Västmanland, and Närke, and is bounded by Norway in the west.
Name
Several Latinized version ...
, Sweden. The main river begins at the Rundtjern, but that lake is fed by several streams and small lakes on and surrounding the Evensbergklinten and Husuberget mountains. The highest source is the small lake Helveteskjelda, at an elevation of above sea level. The river passes through the municipalities of
Ã…snes and
Grue in
Innlandet
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county, Norway and through the municipalities of
Torsby
Torsby () is a locality and the seat of Torsby Municipality in Värmland County, Sweden with 4,049 inhabitants in 2010.
Fortum Ski Tunnel Torsby, the world's longest ski tunnel, is located in Torsby.
There is an airport located near the locali ...
and
Sunne in
Värmland County
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, Sweden.
Rottnan used to have three
waterfall
A waterfall is any point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge
of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf.
Waterfalls can be formed in seve ...
s close to the mouth in Fryken.
Rottnafallet was the last and tallest at height. The waterfalls were built in 1927 for
hydroelectric power
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. The name Rottnan comes from the old Swedish word ''Rotn'' which means "the roaring".
File:Skarpedsfallet.jpg, The waterfall Skarpedsfallet in Rottneros, Sweden
File:Rottnafallet.jpg, The waterfall Rottnafallet and the pulp mill Rottneros bruk in Rottneros, Sweden
See also
*
List of rivers in Norway
The following are the 19 longest rivers of Norway, ranked by length:
# Glomma,
# Tana,
# Pasvikelva and Ivalo, (109 km in Norway)
# Numedalslågen,
# Gudbrandsdalslågen and Vorma,
# Drammensvassdraget (Drammenselva,
# Hallingda ...
References
External links
More pictures of the waterfalls. Pictures of the river from source to mouth.
Rottnan
Rotna
Ã…snes
Grue, Norway
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