Plura is a river in the municipality of

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county,

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. The river begins at the lake Kallvatnet, flows through the Plurdalen valley, and ends up as a tributary to the river

Ranelva Ranelva is a long river in the municipality of Rana, Norway, Rana in Nordland county, Norway. It is one of the longest rivers in Nordland county. The Drainage basin, catchment area of the river is . Before the power stations of ''Reinforsen'' ( ...

, about north of the town of

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. The river is rich with

salmon Salmon () is the common name for several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family (biology), family Salmonidae, which are native to tributary, tributaries of the ...

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, and

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. The name comes from the Norwegian verb ''"prula"'' which means "boiling" or "seething". The Plura river flows both over and beneath the ground, and it has the longest subterranean flow in

at . Until 1964, Plura was a large river, washing

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out of the mountain, creating several

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s/tunnels down through the Plurdalen valley. Through the Pluragrotta cave, about of water passed each minute. The Kallvatnet

dam A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams. Reservoirs created by dams not only suppress floods but also provide water for activities such as irrigation, human consumption, industrial use ...

made the river Plura almost dry, and the water in Pluragrotta cave became standing still like in a water seal.

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