Salm. This name reminds us that the Salm was once a fantastic salmon river, so much so that the town it flows through, Vielsalm—also with its evocative name—chose this fish for its coat of arms. Even though salmon no longer occur in the currents and pools of the Salm, the Salm remains an incomparable salmonid river, heavily populated with shad and trout.

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The Salm (Walloon: Såm) is a river in the Ardennes that was originally called Glain. On topographical maps, that name is still used for the upper reaches, but from Vielsalm, formerly known as Salm, the river is now called Salm. The whole river Salm is often mentioned in tourist publications.

The Salm rises in Commanster at the former Prussian-Belgian border, which followed the watershed here, and flows into the Amblève at the town hall of Trois-Ponts. The source area is above 500 meters, the estuary at 260 meters above the sea.

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Location: Vielsalm, Bastogne, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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