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The Laksforsen waterfall

The Vefsna is the largest river in Nordland county, Norway. It is 163 km long and drains a watershed of 4,122 km². Its headwaters lie in the Børgefjell mountains and it forms the border between Norway and Sweden for part of its course. It runs through the municipalities of Hattfjelldal, Grane and Vefsn and at Mosjøen^[1] it discharges into the Vefsnfjord.

Historically it was an important salmon fishery, but it has now been infected with the salmon parasite Gyrodactylus salaris.

The Laksforsen waterfall lies on its course.^[2]

References and notes

1. ^ Mosjøen is a town in and the municipality administrative center for Vefsn in Norway. The town has approximately 10,000 inhabitants.
2. ^ Photo of the falls at flood.

Nordland (help info ) is a county in Norway, bordering Troms in the north, Nord-Trøndelag in the south, Norrbottens län in Sweden to the east, Västerbottens län to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean (Norwegian Sea) to
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Motto

Royal: Alt for Norge ("Everything for Norway")
1814 Eidsvoll oath: Enige og tro til Dovre faller
("United and faithful until the mountains of Dovre crumble")

Anthem
Ja, vi elsker

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A drainage basin is a region of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, dam, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean. The drainage basin includes both the streams and rivers that convey the water as well as the land surfaces from
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Motto
(Royal) "För Sverige - I tiden" ¹
"For Sweden – With the Times" ²
Anthem
Du gamla, Du fria
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Hattfjelldal (Southern Sami: Aarborte) is a municipality in the county of Nordland, Norway.

Hattfjelldal was separated from Vefsn in 1862.
The name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the farm Hattfjelldalen ("Hatfieldalen" 1723), since the
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Grane is also a commune of the Drôme département in France.

Grane (help info ) is a municipality in the county of Nordland, Norway.
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Vefsn is a municipality in the county of Nordland, Norway.

The centre of Vefsn is the town of Mosjøen. Outside Mosjøen, the large municipality of Vefsn is dominated by spruce forests, mountains, lakes, agriculture and the Vefsna river.
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Mosjøen (help info ) is a town in the municipality of Vefsn in Nordland county, Norway. The town has approximately 11,500 inhabitants.

Mosjøen was separated from Vefsn as a town, and municipality of its own, in 1876.
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The Vefsnfjord is a fjord in Helgeland traditional district, Nordland county, Norway. It is about 50-60 km long. The fjord begins at Tjøtta on the south side of Alstenøya and meets Leirfjord at Sundøya before turning southerly as it proceeds inland to Mosjøen.
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Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the family are called trout. Salmon live in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as the Great Lakes and other land locked lakes.
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G. salaris

Binomial name
Gyrodactylus salaris
Malmberg, 1957

Gyrodactylus salaris is a small monogenean ectoparasite (about 0.
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Motto

Royal: Alt for Norge ("Everything for Norway")
1814 Eidsvoll oath: Enige og tro til Dovre faller
("United and faithful until the mountains of Dovre crumble")

Anthem
Ja, vi elsker

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