Vinstre
Sign in to saveVinstre is a lake in Innlandet county, Norway. The lake lies in Øystre Slidre Municipality and the very western tip of the lake crosses over into the neighboring Vang Municipality. The lake sits at an elevation of above sea level. Vinstre was regulated in connection with the construction of the Øvre Vinstra hydroelectric power plant. The lake Bygdin flows into this lake and on the opposite end, it flows out into the dammed lake Sandvatnet/Kaldfjorden/Øyvatnet which is the headwaters for the river Vinstra.
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Vinstre is referenced by 593 other articles, and connects out to Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Norway and Oslo.
The entry is geolocated on the map in waterbody, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Lakes of Innlandet, Øystre Slidre Municipality and Vang Municipality.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Body of water.name
- Vinstre
- Body of water.image
- Vinstre 001.jpg
- Body of water.image_bathymetry
- La2-demis-bygdin-annotated.png
- Body of water.mapframe
- yes
- Body of water.mapframe zoom
- 9
- Body of water.mapframe caption
- Interactive map of the lake
- Body of water.location
- Innlandet, Norway
- Body of water.basin_countries
- Norway
- Body of water.reference
- NVE
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Øystre Slidre Municipality
- Area
- 28.018291
- Elevation
- 1031
- Image
- Jotunheimen 1.jpg
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- watershed area
- 466.2123
- Commons category
- Vinstre
- basin country
- Norway
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Name
- See also
- References
Vinstre is a lake in Innlandet county, Norway. The lake lies in Øystre Slidre Municipality and the very western tip of the lake crosses over into the neighboring Vang Municipality. The lake sits at an elevation of above sea level. Vinstre was regulated in connection with the construction of the Øvre Vinstra hydroelectric power plant. The lake Bygdin flows into this lake and on the opposite end, it flows out into the dammed lake Sandvatnet/Kaldfjorden/Øyvatnet which is the headwaters for the river Vinstra.
left|thumb Along its northern shore runs the Jotunheimvegen summer toll road, built in the 1950s as a result of hydroelectricity development affecting the operation of the earlier milk boat service.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vinstre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations
Available in 9 languages
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