or is a long river in

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 ...

and

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

. The river starts south of Hof Finnskog in

Solør Solør is a Norwegian traditional district consisting of the valley between Elverum in the north and Kongsvinger in the south. It is part of Innlandet county and it includes the municipalities Våler, Åsnes, and Grue. Glomma valley Glommadal ...

, Norway and discharges into lake

Fryken Fryken (){{cite book, url=http://runeberg.org/ortnamn/0012.html, author1=Jöran Sahlgren, author2=Gösta Bergman, title=Svenska ortnamn med uttalsuppgifter, language=sv, year=1979, page=8 is a chain of three lakes in Värmland, Sweden: Upper, Midd ...

Rottneros Rottneros () is a locality situated in Sunne Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 448 inhabitants in 2010. Rottneros means "roaring river mouth" in old Swedish. The river Rottnan used to have three waterfalls close to the discharge into lak ...

Värmland Värmland () also known as Wermeland, is a '' landskap'' (historical province) in west-central Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Dalsland, Dalarna, Västmanland, and Närke, and is bounded by Norway in the west. Latin name versions are ''Va ...

, Sweden. The river passes through the municipalities of

Åsnes Åsnes is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Solør. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Flisa, which is also the largest village in the municipality with around 1 ...

and Grue in

Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The ...

county, Norway and through the municipalities of

Torsby Torsby () is a locality and the seat of Torsby Municipality in Värmland County, Sweden with 4,049 inhabitants in 2010. Fortum Ski Tunnel Torsby, the world's longest ski tunnel, is located in Torsby. Notable people * Football manager Sven-Gör ...

and Sunne in

Värmland County Värmland County (''Värmlands län'') is a county or '' län'' in west central Sweden. It borders the Swedish counties of Dalarna, Örebro and Västra Götaland, as well as the Norwegian counties of Viken and Innlandet to the west. Prince Carl P ...

in Sweden. Rottnan used to have three

waterfall A waterfall is a point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf. Waterfalls can be formed in several wa ...

s close to the mouth in Fryken. Rottnafallet was the last and tallest at height. The waterfalls were built in 1927 for

hydroelectric power 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 and ...

. The name Rottnan comes from the old Swedish word ''Rotn'' which means "the roaring". File:Skarpedsfallet.jpg, The waterfall Skarpedsfallet in Rottneros, Sweden File:Rottnafallet.jpg, The waterfall Rottnafallet and the pulp mill Rottneros bruk in Rottneros, Sweden

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More pictures of the waterfalls. Pictures of the river from source to mouth.

Rottnan or is a long river in Norway and Sweden. The river starts south of Hof Finnskog in Solør, Norway and discharges into lake Fryken at Rottneros in Värmland, Sweden. The river passes through the municipalities of Åsnes and Grue in Innlandet ...

Rotna Åsnes Grue, Norway {{Norway-river-stub

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