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- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Southern Region
- Image
- Miðhusaskogur 031.JPG
- Length
- 38
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right|thumb|The lower course of the Brúará
The Brúará (, "bridge river") is a river of Iceland. It is fed by springs and discharges at the Rótarsandur area and the Brúará Canyons. It is a right tributary of the Hvítá. The whole river course is designated as a nature protected area. The name comes from a type of natural bridge that overpassed the river near the bishop-seat in Skalholt. According to sources from the bishop a worker of the bishop broke the bridge in 1602 because the seat didn't want dirty wanderers to have it to easy to approach.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brúará” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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