Krimmler Ache

Krimmler Ache
Location
Location	Salzburg, Austria
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	At Krimmler Törl
• coordinates	47°06′01″N 12°16′20″E
• elevation	ca. 2,100 m (AA)
Mouth
• location	Into the Vorderkrimml into the Salzach
• coordinates	47°14′13″N 12°11′54″E
• elevation	ca. 905 m (AA)
Basin features
Progression	Salzach→ Inn→ Danube→ Black Sea
Landmarks	Villages: Krimml
Tributaries
• right	Rainbach, Windbach
Krimml Waterfalls

The Krimmler Ache is right tributary of the River Salzach in the Pinzgau region of the Austrian state of Salzburg. Its valley (the Krimmler Achental) forms the boundary between the Zillertal Alps in the west and the Venediger Group in the east, which belong to the High Tauern.

The valley begins above the village of Krimml at the Krimml Waterfalls and runs up to its head at the Krimmlerkees on the mountain of Dreiherrenspitze (3,499 m (AA)). The Krimmler Ache river rises at a height of about 2,500 metres, at Krimmler Törl (2,787 m above sea level (AA)) to the valley of the Obersulzbach that lies to the east.

In the upper east corner of the Krimmler Ache is the Warnsdorfer Hut and in the central section of the valley is the Krimmler Tauernhaus.

The valley of the Rainbach begins west of the Krimmler Tauernhaus, running from the Reichenspitze (3,303 m above sea level (AA)) and Rainbachspitze (3,129 m above sea level (AA)), and, near the Äußerer Unlaßalm, is the start of the Windbach valley. Both valleys run southwest into the Zillertal Alps.

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  Head of the valley and the Krimmler Kees
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  Inner Keesalm and Krimmler Kees

External links

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