Botnedalen is a valley in

Tokke Municipality Tokke is a municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Vest-Telemark. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Dalen. The municipality of Tokke was cr ...

in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The valley used to be the site a number of mountain farms that are no longer in use. The river that runs through the valley was dammed, creating the lake

Botnedalsvatn Botnedalsvatn is a lake in Tokke Municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The lake is located in the Botnedalen valley, about to the northwest of the village of Dalen. Botnedalsvatn has a dam on the southeast end of the lake whi ...

. The lake is as a reservoir for the nearby

Byrte Hydroelectric Power Station The Byrte Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located near the lake Byrtevatn in the municipality Tokke in Vestfold og Telemark, Norway. It exploits the water from Botnedalsvatn Botnedalsvatn is a lake in Tokke Municipality in Ve ...

. Botnedalen is known for the occurrence of various minerals, including hausmannite, jacobsite, braunite, bustamite and rhodonite.

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