Sog River

Sog (; more commonly Sogið ) is a river in

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

. It runs from the lake Þingvallavatn for to its confluence with the river Hvítá, forming the river

Ölfusá The Ölfusá () is a river in Iceland. It begins at the junction between the Hvítá, Árnessýsla, Hvítá and Sog River, Sog rivers, just north of the town of Selfoss (town), Selfoss, and flows for 25 km into the Atlantic Ocean. It is Ice ...

which then runs for another 25 km into the

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. Its average discharge is . There are three

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power stations on the river
Ljósafossstöð
(15 MW)
Írafossstöð
(48 MW) an
Steingrímsstöð
(27 MW). The river runs through two lakes, Úlfljótsvatn and Álftavatn . It has a healthy stock of arctic char and Atlantic

salmon Salmon (; : salmon) are any of several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera ''Salmo'' and ''Oncorhynchus'' of the family (biology), family Salmonidae, native ...

. The size of the char can be anywhere from 0.5 pounds up the 5.0 pounds with an average size of one pound. The most common weight for salmon is 5.0 to 10.0 pounds with a few fish caught each year from 20.0 to 30.0 pounds. There are also brown

trout Trout (: trout) is a generic common name for numerous species of carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the genera '' Oncorhynchus'', ''Salmo'' and ''Salvelinus'', all of which are members of the subfamily Salmoninae in the ...

in the River. Rivers of Iceland {{Iceland-river-stub