The Sima is a river in the municipality of
Eidfjord
Eidfjord is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The municipality is located in the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of E ...
in
Hordaland
Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Munici ...
,
Norway
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.
The river is long, and it has a
drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land in which 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, ...
of
and an average
discharge of .
The river has its source on the west side of the
Hardanger Glacier, at a
proglacial lake called ''Demmevatn'' at an elevation of .
The river then flows west from Lake Rembesdal (''Rembesdalsvatn''), with an elevation of , into the deep
Sima Valley and past the former high Rembesdal Falls (''Rembesdalsfossen''), which is now dry because of hydroelectric plant infrastructure. In the Sima Valley the river is joined by the Skytjedal River (''Skytjedalselva''), a left tributary known for ''Skytjefossen'', a high waterfall.
The river continues west until its mouth at the head of the
Simadal Fjord.
Together with the nearby
Bjoreio River to the south, the Sima River has been developed for power production at the
Sima Hydroelectric Power Station.
The power station is located in the mountains below
Kjeåsen
Kjeåsen is a mountain farm (with two farmsteads) in the municipality of Eidfjord in Norway's Hardanger district, in Vestland county. The farm lies at an elevation of at the innermost point of the Simadal Fjord. The farm is no longer being worked ...
on the north side of the Simadal Fjord.
References
Rivers of Vestland
Eidfjord
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