Glerá

The Glerá is a river in northern . It originates from in the mountains of the Tröllaskagi peninsula and also draws from some freshwater springs on its way down Glerá Valley.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in Iceland
  • Also known as: Glera

Places of Interest

Highlights include Akureyrarkirkja and Akureyri Art Museum.

Church
or The Church of Akureyri is a prominent Lutheran church at in northern . Located in the centre of the city, it was designed by Guðjón Samúelsson and completed in 1940.

Art gallery
The was founded in 1993. The museum is located in the center of , the second-largest city in Iceland. Originally home to a dairy, the building which houses the gallery is noted as a good example of the Bauhaus school of architecture.

Church
is a church in , . It is a parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland. In 1969 a building committee was formed to find a place for a new church for the neighborhood.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Akureyri and Svalbarðseyri.

, with a population of around 19,000, is the largest town in outside the , and the unofficial capital of .

Village
is a small in the municipality, northern , which in January 2011 had 245 inhabitants. It is located on the east coast of fjord. is situated 6 km north of Glerá.

Glerá

Latitude
65.69454° or 65° 41′ 40″ north
Longitude
-18.09842° or 18° 5′ 54″ west
Open location code
9CQ3MWV2+RJ
Geo­Names ID
2631284
Wiki­data ID
Q593014
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Venetian—“Glerá” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: Ríu Glerá
  • Belarusian: Глераў
  • Belarusian: Рака Глераў
  • Cebuano: Glerá
  • Chinese: 格莱尔河
  • Chinese: 格萊爾河
  • Chuvash: Глерау
  • Dutch: Glerá
  • French: Glera
  • French: Glerá
  • German: Glera
  • German: Glerá
  • Hungarian: Glerá
  • Icelandic: Glerá
  • Irish: Glerá
  • Italian: Glerá
  • Japanese: グレールアゥ
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Glera
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Glerá
  • Polish: Glera
  • Polish: Glerá
  • Portuguese: Glerá
  • Russian: Глерау
  • Swedish: Glerá
  • Ukrainian: Глерау
  • Venetian: Fiume Glerá
  • Glerá

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Glerá”. Photo: Biekko, CC BY-SA 3.0.