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Möll (river)

Möll
Aichhorn - Möll, flussaufwärts.JPG
Upper Möll near Heiligenblut
Country Austria
Basin features
Main source Pasterze Glacier, Grossglockner near Heiligenblut
2,500 m (8,200 ft)
47°4′39″N 12°44′4″E / 47.07750°N 12.73444°E / 47.07750; 12.73444
River mouth Drava near Möllbrücke
549 m (1,801 ft)
46°49′38″N 13°22′48″E / 46.82722°N 13.38000°E / 46.82722; 13.38000Coordinates: 46°49′38″N 13°22′48″E / 46.82722°N 13.38000°E / 46.82722; 13.38000
Progression DravaDanubeBlack Sea
Basin size 1,100.8 km2 (425.0 sq mi)
Physical characteristics
Length 84 km (52 mi)
Discharge
  • Average rate:
    24.9 m3 (880 cu ft)/s

The Möll (presumably from Slovene: Mel, "rubble") is a river in northwestern Carinthia in Austria, a left tributary of the Drava.

The river rises in the High Tauern range of the Central Eastern Alps on the Pasterze Glacier at the foot of the Grossglockner, the highest mountain in Austria. It discharges after 84 km (52 mi) near Möllbrücke into the Drava. At the beginning of its course, at the southeastern end of the Pasterze Glacier, it is impounded to form the Margaritze Reservoir, from where part of the water is diverted via pressure tunnels across the Alpine crest and Mt. Wiesbachhorn to the reservoirs of the Verbund hydroelectric power plant in Kaprun, Salzburg.

The Möll then runs down to Heiligenblut, parallel to the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, and further southwards separating the mountains of the Schober Group in the west from the Goldberg Group in the east. In the municipality of Winklern, near the border with Tyrol (East Tyrol) at Iselsberg Pass, it turns eastwards running through the broad lower part of the Möll Valley (German: Mölltal) along the northern rim of the Kreuzeck Group.


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