Öxará
Öxará is a lake-to-lake river in Iceland in Þingvellir National Park, a tributary of Lake Þingvallavatn. It descends to the rift forming Öxarárfoss, a waterfall.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Iceland
- Also known as: “OExara” and “Oxara”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Öxarárfoss and Flosagjá.
Öxarárfoss
Waterfall
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Öxarárfoss is a waterfall in Þingvellir National Park, Iceland. It flows from the river Öxará over the Almannagjá. The pool at the base of the waterfall is filled with rocks and is often extremely icy during winter.
Lögberg
Monument
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Lögberg, or Law Rock, was a rocky outcrop in south west Iceland, at the location for the assembly of the country's Althing parliament. The original Althing was gathered at Þingvellir, an area of dramatic landscapes which was easily accessible from the populated areas of the south west.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Þingvellir National Park.
Þingvellir National Park
Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY 2.0.
Þingvellir National Park is a world-heritage national park in South Iceland. The park is home to the world's longest-running Parliament, which was established in 930 AD.
Öxará
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: South Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Venetian—“Öxará” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Öxará”
- Catalan: “Öxará”
- Chuvash: “Ёхсарау”
- Dutch: “Oxara”
- Dutch: “Öxará”
- French: “Öxará”
- Galician: “Öxará”
- German: “Öxará”
- Hungarian: “Öxará”
- Icelandic: “Öxará”
- Irish: “Öxará”
- Italian: “Öxará”
- Low German: “Öxará”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Öxará”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Øxara”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Öxará”
- Norwegian: “Öxará”
- Polish: “Oxara”
- Polish: “Öxará”
- Portuguese: “Öxará”
- Russian: “Ексарау”
- Russian: “Ёксарау”
- Russian: “Ёхсарау”
- Russian: “Эхсарау”
- Spanish: “Öxará”
- Swedish: “Öxara”
- Swedish: “Öxará”
- Ukrainian: “Ехсарау”
- Venetian: “Fiume Öxará”
- “Öxará”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Öxarárhólmi and Lögberg.
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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 “Öxará”. Photo: Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0.