Ölfusá
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The Ölfusá () is a river in Iceland. It begins at the junction between the Hvítá and Sog rivers, just north of the town of Selfoss, and flows for into the Atlantic Ocean. It is Iceland's largest river by volume with an average discharge of . Its drainage basin is . The Ölfusá is home to a large salmon fishing industry. The Flói Nature Reserve is located on its eastern shore near its mouth.
Key facts
- River.name
- Ölfusá
- River.image
- Ölfusa 1.jpg
- River.image_caption
- The Ölfusá near Hveragerði
- River.source1
- Confluence of the Hvítá and the Sog rivers
- River.mouth
- Atlantic Ocean
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- estuary
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Southern Region
- Image
- Bridge over Ölfusá (Ölfusárbrú), Selfoss.jpg
- Length
- 25
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- discharge
- 423.0
- tributary
- Sog River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Atlantic Ocean
- Commons category
- Ölfusá
- watershed area
- 5760
- basin country
- Iceland
- native label
- Ölfusá
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The Ölfusá () is a river in Iceland. It begins at the junction between the Hvítá and Sog rivers, just north of the town of Selfoss, and flows for into the Atlantic Ocean. It is Iceland's largest river by volume with an average discharge of . Its drainage basin is . The Ölfusá is home to a large salmon fishing industry. The Flói Nature Reserve is located on its eastern shore near its mouth.
==See also== List of rivers of Iceland
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ölfusá” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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