Sjoa
Sign in to saveSjoa is a river in Innlandet county, Norway. The long river runs through Vågå Municipality and Sel Municipality and it provides the outlet from lake Gjende at Gjendesheim in the Jotunheimen mountains of Norway's Jotunheim National Park. The river flows eastward through the Sjodalen valley and Heidal valley into the Gudbrandsdalslågen river at the village of Sjoa.
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- Sjoa
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- Sjoa (2005).jpg
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- View of the river (2005) thumb|The river during summer.
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- 8
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- Country
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- Norway
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- County
- River.subdivision_name2
- Innlandet
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- Municipalities
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- Vågå Municipality and Sel Municipality
- River.source1
- Gjende lake
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- Gjendesheim, Vågå Municipality
- River.mouth
- Gudbrandsdalslågen
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- Sjoa, Sel Municipality
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- mouth of the watercourse
- Gudbrandsdalslågen
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- Sjoa
- watershed area
- 1529
- origin of the watercourse
- Gjende
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Sjoa is a river in Innlandet county, Norway. The long river runs through Vågå Municipality and Sel Municipality and it provides the outlet from lake Gjende at Gjendesheim in the Jotunheimen mountains of Norway's Jotunheim National Park. The river flows eastward through the Sjodalen valley and Heidal valley into the Gudbrandsdalslågen river at the village of Sjoa.
South of the village of Randsverk, the river flows through Ridderspranget which is a ravine named after a Norwegian myth.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sjoa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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