Botsvatn or Bossvatn is a

lake A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much large ...

in the municipality of

Bykle Bykle is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Setesdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bykle. Other villages in Bykle municipality include Berdalen, Bjåen, Br ...

Agder Agder is a county (''fylke'') and traditional region in the southern part of Norway. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder counties were merged. Since the early 1900s, the term Sørlandet ("south ...

county A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, 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 ...

. The long, narrow

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 contr ...

is located just to the southeast of the large lake Blåsjø and northeast of the lake

Ytre Storevatnet Ytre Storevatnet is a lake in the municipality of Bykle in Agder county, Norway. The lake makes up the northernmost part of the Svartevatnet reservoir that empties into the Sira River system. The lake is located just south of the lake Blåsjø ...

. The lake holds water for the

Brokke Hydroelectric Power Station The Brokke Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in the municipality Valle in Agder county, Norway. It is located on the west shore of the river Otra, about north of the village of Rysstad. The Norwegian National Road 9 ...

, located in nearby Valle municipality. The water from the lake can flow out into the nearby river

Otra The Otra is the largest river in the Sørlandet region of Norway. It begins in Setesdalsheiene mountains at the lake Breidvatnet in Bykle municipality in Agder county, just south of the border with Vinje municipality in Vestfold og Telemark cou ...

, but only when water is released from the dam. The village of Nordbygdi is located on the north shore of the lake, and the village of

is located about to the east of the lake along the

Norwegian National Road 9 Norwegian National Road 9 ( no, Riksvei 9, ) is often called the ''Setesdal Road'' ( no, Setesdalsveien) and it is the main thoroughfare through the Setesdalen valley. It runs from the city of Kristiansand in the southern coast of Norway, throu ...

. The mountain

Steinheii Steinheii is a mountain in the municipality of Bykle in Agder county, Norway. The tall mountain has a topographic prominence of which makes it the 10th highest mountain in Agder county. The mountain sits in the southwestern part of the munici ...

lies on the south shore of the lake and the mountain Strondefjell lies on the north side of the lake.

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{{Lakes in Norway Bykle Lakes of Agder Reservoirs in Norway

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