Hafslovatnet is a lake in the municipality of
Luster 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 the ...
.
The lake lies at an elevation of ,
has a surface area of , and a water volume of .
It serves as a
reservoir
A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation.
Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contro ...
for the
hydroelectric power station
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined an ...
in Årøy.
The primary inflow of the Hafslovatnet is via the short river Soget from the lake
Veitastrondsvatnet. The primary outflow is the river Årøyelvi, which flows south into the Barsnesfjord, an inner part of the Sogndalsfjord, which, in turn, is a northern branch of the
Sognefjord
The Sognefjord or Sognefjorden (, en, Sogn Fjord), nicknamed the King of the Fjords ( no, Fjordenes konge), is the largest and deepest fjord in Norway. Located in Vestland county in Western Norway, it stretches inland from the ocean to the smal ...
.
The eponymous village of
Hafslo lies at the northern shore of the lake. The eastern end of the lake lies at a distance of less than from the village of
Solvorn
Solvorn is a village in Luster Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the western shore of the Lustrafjorden, the innermost part of the Sognefjorden. The village sits directly across the fjord from the village of Orne ...
, which lies at the northern shore of the
Lustrafjord. The western part of the lake lies in the
bird reserve Hafslovatnet.
Media gallery
Panorama of Hafslovatnet.jpg, Panorama of Hafslovatnet with the village Hafslo visible across the lake in the center of the image
See also
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List of lakes in Norway
References
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Lakes of Vestland
Reservoirs in Norway