Lundamo is a village in the municipality of Melhus

Melhus

Melhus is a village and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Gauldalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Melhus...

 in Sør-Trøndelag

Sør-Trøndelag

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 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It is located along the Gaula River between the villages of Hovin

Hovin, Sør-Trøndelag

Hovin is a village in the municipality of Melhus in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along the Gaula River between the villages of Støren and Lundamo. The village has a population of 640. The population density of Hovin is ....

 and Ler

Ler, Norway

Ler is a village in the municipality of Melhus in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along the Gaula River between the villages of Kvål and Lundamo. The village has a population of 565. The population density of Ler is ....

. The 1.1 square kilometres (271.8 acre) village has a population (2009) of 1,125. The population density

Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans...

 of Lundamo is 1023 PD/km2.

Lundamo Station

Lundamo Station

Lundamo Station is a railway station in the village of Lundamo in the municipality of Melhus in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The station is located on the Dovrebanen railway line, about south of Trondheim Central Station and about north of Oslo Central Station . The station sits at an...

 is located in the village along the Dovrebanen

Dovrebanen

The Dovre Line is the main line of the Norwegian railway system between Oslo and Trondheim. The 64 km section south of Eidsvoll has been replaced by the Gardermo Line, the only high-speed line in the country. The line between Eidsvoll and Dombås is from old times the Eidsvoll–Dombås Line. The line...

 railway line, but it is now in use only for local traffic. The European route E6

European route E6

European route E 6 is the designation for the main north-south road in Norway, and the west coast of Sweden, running from the southern tip of Sweden, at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the country north to Finnmark. The route ends close to the Norwegian border with Russia...

 highway also runs through the village. The Gaula River runs through Lundamo, and in 2005 it was selected the best river for salmon

Salmon

Salmon is the common name for several species of fish in the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the same family are called trout; the difference is often said to be that salmon migrate and trout are resident, but this distinction does not strictly hold true...

-fishing in Norway. Lundamo was the administrative center of the former municipality of Horg

Horg

Horg is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The administrative centre was the village of Lundamo. Horg encompasses the southern part of the present-day municipality of Melhus on both sides of the Gaula River...

. It is also the location of the Horg Church

Horg Church

Horg Church is a parish church in the municipality of Melhus in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The church is located in the southern side of the village of Lundamo, just east of the European route E6 and the Gaula River....

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