Ångermanälven

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Ångermanälven
Ångermanälv
The river by the city park in Sollefteå

The river by the city park in Sollefteå

Data
location Västerbottens län , Västernorrlands län ( Sweden )
River system Ångermanälven
source in Børgefjell National Park
65 ° 11 ′ 11 ″  N , 14 ° 10 ′ 46 ″  E
muzzle at Ramvik in the Gulf of Bothnia coordinates: 62 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E 62 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E
Mouth height 0  m o.h.

length 490 km
Catchment area 31,864 km²
Drain MQ
 485 m³ / s
Left tributaries Vojmån
Right tributaries Fjällsjöälven , Faxälven
Flowing lakes Kultsjön , Malgomaj , Volgsjön
Small towns Vilhelmina , Sollefteå , Kramfors

The Ångermanälven is a river in northern Sweden . It is 490 km long and the most water-rich river in Sweden.

The main source of the Ångermanälven is the Ransarån . This rises in the Børgefjell National Park on the other side of the Norwegian border and flows through the lakes Ranseren and Ransarn before it flows into the Kultsjön . The Ångermanälven is the drain of the Kultsjön. It then flows through Västerbotten , northern Jämtland and Ångermanland in a south-easterly direction, reinforced by numerous tributaries , forming several lakes, including Kultsjön, Malgomaj and Volgsjön . At the port of Nyland the river widens into a 37 km long bay. The Ångermanälven flows north of Härnösand into the Gulf of Bothnia , a bay in the Baltic Sea . Before splitting into the broad estuary around the islands of Åbordsön and Hemsön , Ångermanälven is spanned by the 1,867 m long Högakusten bridge. It is part of the Europastraße 4 . Important tributaries are Vojmån , Fjällsjöälven and Faxälven .

Power plants

Looking downstream, the Ångermanälven is dammed by the following 15 power plants:

power plant operator Installed
capacity
(MW) 		Opening / renovation
Stalon Vattenfall 130.2 1961
Malgomaj Statkraft 10 1983
Volgsjöfors Statkraft 20th 1981
Stenkullafors Vattenfall 58 1983
Åsele Vattenfall 27 1981
Hallby E.ON 84 1970/1992
Gulsele E.ON 66.2 1954/2008
Degerforsen E.ON 63 1966
Edensforsen E.ON 71.35 1956
Långbjörn Vattenfall 96.9 1960/1992
Lasele Vattenfall 149.6 1957
Nämforsen Vattenfall 114.6 1946/1973
Moforsen E.ON 135 1968
Forsmo Vattenfall / Statkraft 160 1948/1957
Sollefteå Sollefteå Municipality
(Sollefteåforsen AB) 		62 1966

Web links

Commons : Ångermanälven  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sveriges Meteorologiska och Hydrologiska Institut (SMHI) - Län och huvudavrinningsområden i Sverige (PDF; 2.5 MB)
  2. ↑ Ångermanälven. vattenkraft.info, accessed May 26, 2016 (Swedish).