Brúará
The Brúará (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈpruːarˌauː], "bridge river") is a river of Iceland. It is fed by springs and discharges at the Rotarsandur Area and the Brúará Canyons. It is a right tributary of the Hvítá. The whole river course is designated as a nature protected area.[1] The name comes from a type of natural bridge that overpassed the river near the bishup-seat in Skalholt. According to sources from the bishop a worker of the bishop broke the bridge in 1602 because the seat didn't want dirty wanderers to have it to easy to approach.
The lower course of the Brúará
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- "Laugarvatn–Apavatn–Brúará" (in Icelandic). Icelandic Institute of Natural History.
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