Stryneelva or Strynselva is a river in the municipality of
Stryn
Stryn is a municipality in the county of Vestland, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Nordfjord. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Stryn. The municipality is located along the innermost part of ...
in
Vestland
Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, whe ...
county, Norway. It has a length of about , starting from the lake
Oppstrynsvatn, assuming a
meander
A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex ban ...
ing course through the
Strynedalen valley and reaching the
Nordfjorden at the
village of Stryn. The river is among the best salmon rivers in Norway.
See also
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List of rivers in Norway
The following are the 19 longest rivers of Norway, ranked by length:
# Glomma,
# Pasvikelva and Ivalo, (109 km in Norway)
# Numedalslågen,
# Gudbrandsdalslågen and Vorma,
# Tana,
# Drammensvassdraget (Drammenselva,
# Skiensvassdrag ...
References
Rivers of Vestland
Stryn
Rivers of Norway
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