Lovatnet
Sign in to saveLovatnet (also: Loenvatnet) is a lake in Stryn Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located about southeast of the village of Loen and about east of the village of Olden. The lake lies just southwest of the mountain Skåla. The water from the lake flows down from the mountains; especially from the Jostedalsbreen and Tindefjellbreen glaciers. It then flows out through the Loelva river into the Nordfjorden.
Key facts
- Body of water.name
- Lovatnet
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- Loenvatnet 2.JPG
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- 9
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- Interactive map of the lake
- Body of water.location
- Stryn Municipality,Vestland
- Body of water.inflow
- Kjenndalselva river
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- Loelva river
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- Norway
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- NVE
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- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Stryn Municipality
- Elevation
- +52
- Image
- Loenvatnet 2.JPG
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Lovatnet (also: Loenvatnet) is a lake in Stryn Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located about southeast of the village of Loen and about east of the village of Olden. The lake lies just southwest of the mountain Skåla. The water from the lake flows down from the mountains; especially from the Jostedalsbreen and Tindefjellbreen glaciers. It then flows out through the Loelva river into the Nordfjorden.
Water from the tiered horsetail waterfall Ramnefjellsfossen with a total height of flows into the lake from a short distance away, by some criteria among the highest dozen waterfalls in the world. It is fed by meltwater from the glacier Ramnefjellbreen, an arm of the Jostedalsbreen glacier.