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Virvasselva
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, , or is a river in Rana Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The river flows out of the eastern part of the lake Virvatnet. The stream Boneselva meets Virvasselva about east of the lake Virvatnet. This is a large, continuous, very rich and untouched wetland area with tarns, rivers, marshes, and very tight vegetation. Virvasselva has a good population of Arctic char.
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The entry is geolocated on the map, across 4 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Rana Municipality, Rivers of Nordland and Rivers of Norway.
Vinony links it to 4 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Rana Municipality
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, , or is a river in Rana Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The river flows out of the eastern part of the lake Virvatnet. The stream Boneselva meets Virvasselva about east of the lake Virvatnet. This is a large, continuous, very rich and untouched wetland area with tarns, rivers, marshes, and very tight vegetation. Virvasselva has a good population of Arctic char.
After about , the river Virvasselva reaches a pumping station where most of the water is diverted through a tunnel to flow west to supply the Rana power station. The much smaller river then continues north and meets the main river Ranelva at Elvmøtheia in the Dunderland Valley.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Virvasselva” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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4 mapped locations