The Fuscher Ache is a river of
Salzburg
Salzburg is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020 its population was 156,852. The city lies on the Salzach, Salzach River, near the border with Germany and at the foot of the Austrian Alps, Alps moun ...
,
Austria
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, a right tributary of the River
Salzach
The Salzach (Austrian: ˆsaltsax ) is a river in Austria and Germany. It is in length and is a right tributary of the Inn (river), Inn, which eventually joins the Danube. Its drainage basin of comprises large parts of the Northern Limeston ...
.
The Fuscher Ache rises as the confluence of the Kaefertalbach und the Traunerbach near the ''
Fuscher Törl'' at a height of about in the Lower
Pinzgau
The Bezirk Zell am See is an administrative district (''Bezirk'') in the federal state of Salzburg, Austria, and congruent with the Pinzgau region ().
The area of the district is , with a population of 84,124 (May 15, 2001), and population dens ...
. It flows from south to north through the valley of the same name, passing the small village of
Fusch an der Großglocknerstraße. It supplies a drinking water reservoir for the village, its water quality being very high. It is rich in fish such as
brown trout
The brown trout (''Salmo trutta'') is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus ''Salmo'', endemic to most of Europe, West Asia and parts of North Africa, and has been widely introduced globally ...
,
grayling and
char. After about it empties into the Salzach at
Bruck an der Großglocknerstraße
Bruck an der Großglocknerstraße (Southern Bavarian: ''Bruck a da Glocknerstrouss'') is a municipality in Zell am See District, in the state of Salzburg in Austria.
Geography
Bruck in the historic ''Pinzgau'' region is situated in the valley of ...
.
References
Rivers of Salzburg (federal state)
Glockner Group
Fusch an der Großglocknerstraße
Rivers of Austria
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