Qorlortorsuaq

Qorlortorsuaq
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location
Coordinates	60 ° 46 ′ 12 ″  N , 45 ° 14 ′ 24 ″  W.
country	Greenland
place	Qorlortorsuaq
Waters	Qorlortorsuup Tasia / Amitsuarsuup Kuua
power plant
operator	Nukissiorfiit
Start of planning	2003
construction time	2004-2007
Start of operation	2007
technology
Bottleneck performance	8 MW megawatts
Average height of fall	106 mm
Expansion flow	8.4 m³ / s m³ / s
Standard work capacity	27 GWh / year million kWh / year
Turbines	2 Francis turbines
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Qorlortorsuaq (great waterfall)
K'ordlortorssuaĸ
Commune	Kujalleq municipality
District	Nanortalics
Geographical location	60 ° 46 '12 "  N , 45 ° 14' 24"  W Coordinates: 60 ° 46 '12 "  N , 45 ° 14' 24"  W.
Residents	4 (January 1, 2020)
Time zone	UTC-3
particularities	Waterfall power plant

Qorlortorsuaq [ ˌqɔɬːɔˈtːɔsːuɑq ] (according to the old spelling K'ordlortorssuaĸ ) is a Greenlandic shepherd settlement in the Nanortalik district in the Kujalleq municipality .

location

Qorlortorsuaq is located at the end of the Amitsuarsuk fjord and on a plain between the two lakes Qorlortorsuup Tasia in the north and Amitsuarsuup Tasia in the south. The nearest places are Qallimiut 13 km away at the mouth of the fjord in Qallimiut Imaat and 10 to 13 km away Igaliku Kujalleq in the north. The next larger town is Ammassivik , which is 21 km southwest.

history

Qorlortorsuaq is one of the numerous shepherd settlements in the municipality. In 2003 the construction of a waterfall power plant began at the eponymous country's largest waterfall in the village, which drains the Qorlortorsuup Tasia over the Amitsuarsuup Kuua into the Amitsuarsuup Tasia, which was completed in 2007. The power plant supplies the two cities of Qaqortoq and Narsaq with electricity, with a 70 km power line leading there. Two Francis turbines produce 27 GWh of energy annually for the approximately 4,400 residents of the two cities.

Population development

The population of Qorlortorsuaq has fluctuated between one and thirteen over the past 40 years, with high phases in the early 1990s and around 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
2. ^ Sabine Barth: Greenland . In: Travel paperback . 4th edition. DuMont, Ostfildern 2017, ISBN 978-3-616-42061-5 , p. 147 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ↑ Qorlortorsuaq small hydropower plans at mannvit.com
4. ↑ Qorlortorsuaq vandkraft at sogmverkis.gl
5. ↑ Population Qorlortorsuaq 1977-2020 at bank.stat.gl