The Eio is a short but powerful river in the municipality of
Eidfjord
Eidfjord is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The municipality is located in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Eidfjord, where the majority of the municipal populatio ...
in
Vestland
Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...
county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
.
It runs from
Lake Eidfjord into
Eid Fjord
The Eid Fjord ( no, Eidfjorden) is the innermost part of the Hardanger Fjord in Norway. It extends eastwards from the Utne Fjord and Sørfjorden. The Eid Fjord lies in the municipalities of Ullensvang, Ulvik, and Eidfjord in Vestland county.
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and is long. The river is the lowermost part of the Eidfjord river system, which, in addition to the Eio, includes the
Bjoreio
The Bjoreio, also known as the Bjoreia, is a river in the municipality of Eidfjord in Vestland, Norway. The river is long, and it has a drainage basin of . Its natural average discharge is , but this is considerably less today because of hydroel ...
and
Veig
The Veig is a river in the municipalities of Eidfjord and Ullensvang in Vestland county, Norway. The river is long and has a drainage basin of . Its average discharge is .
The river rises east of Hårteigen
Hårteigen is a characteristic moun ...
rivers, which flow into Lake Eidfjord.
The river system has a
drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, t ...
of
and a length of reckoned from the furthest source of the Bjoreio on the
Hardanger Plateau to the mouth of the Eio in the fjord.
See also
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List of rivers in Norway
The following are the 19 longest rivers of Norway, ranked by length:
# Glomma,
# Pasvikelva and Ivalo, (109 km in Norway)
# Numedalslågen,
# Gudbrandsdalslågen and Vorma,
# Tana,
# Drammensvassdraget (Drammenselva,
# Skiensvassdraget ...
References
Rivers of Vestland
Eidfjord
Rivers of Norway
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