Tjeggelvas
Sign in to saveTjeggelvas is a lake in northern Sweden. It is located in Arjeplog Municipality in the province of Swedish Lapland, and administratively of Norrbotten County and is part of the Pite River catchment area. Tjeggelvashas is on the western edge of the Scandinavian Mountains, with a high surface elevation of . The nearest settlements, Jäkkvik and Arjeplog, are to the south, along the shores of the larger lake Hornavan.
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Arjeplog Municipality
- Area
- 66.87712756150000400000
- Elevation
- 450
- Image
- Tjeggelvas (Tjieggelvas) 02.jpg
- Width
- 5
- Length
- 40
- Perimeter
- 106
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- vertical depth
- 65
- Commons category
- Tjeggelvas (Tjieggelvas)
- inflows
- Pite River
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Tjeggelvas is a lake in northern Sweden. It is located in Arjeplog Municipality in the province of Swedish Lapland, and administratively of Norrbotten County and is part of the Pite River catchment area. Tjeggelvashas is on the western edge of the Scandinavian Mountains, with a high surface elevation of . The nearest settlements, Jäkkvik and Arjeplog, are to the south, along the shores of the larger lake Hornavan.
The lake and surrounding area are within the nature reserve Tjeggelvas, formed in 1988, which covers . Forests of old-growth pine take up a large amount of the protected area, but there are areas of spruce too, especially in the east.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tjeggelvas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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