Urriðafoss
Sign in to saveUrriðafoss (, "sea trout waterfall") is a waterfall located in the river Þjórsá in southwest Iceland. With a flow rate of 360 m³/s, it has the highest average water flow of any waterfall in Iceland, and the second highest in Europe behind the Rheinfall.
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- Waterfall.name
- Urriðafoss
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- Waterfall.location
- South of Iceland
- Waterfall.map
- Iceland
- Waterfall.average_flow
- 360 m³/s
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Urriðafoss (, "sea trout waterfall") is a waterfall located in the river Þjórsá in southwest Iceland. With a flow rate of 360 m³/s, it has the highest average water flow of any waterfall in Iceland, and the second highest in Europe behind the Rheinfall.
The Fossafélagið Títan company was given permission in 1927 to build a power plant in Urriðafoss in connection with a railway to Reykjavík from the waterfall. It did not happen but now Landsvirkjun is planning to build hydropower stations on the lower part of Þjórsár river, at Urriðafoss and Núpur.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Urriðafoss” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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