Qorlortorsuaq

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Qorlortorsuaq is a village in the Nanortalik district, in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland, located at the site of the largest waterfall in the country; the waterfall also goes by the name of Qorlortorsuaq. In 2020, the town had only 4 inhabitants.{{cite web|title= Population by Localities|url = https://bank.stat.gl/pxweb/en/Greenland/Greenland__BE__BE01__BE0120/BEXST4.PX/table/tableViewLayout1/?rxid=27d6ab46-03f8-43bd-868c-24a2a5a0a8e0|publisher = Statistical Greenland|access-date = 7 April 2020 }} The population consists mostly of farmers.

Qorlortorsuaq also houses the only trout farm in the country{{cite web|title=Historic sites and ruins in the Nanortalik district|url=http://www.randburg.com/gr/nanocomm.html|access-date=2011-02-13|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110108081655/http://www.randburg.com/gr/nanocomm.html|archive-date=2011-01-08}}

Qorlortorsuaq is a location of the Qorlortorsuaq hydroelectric dam. The hydropower plant is part of the focus of the government of Greenland to replace fossil fuelled power plants with renewable energy, and is only one of a number of hydroelectric projects planned for construction. The plant has made it possible to decommission the three aging diesel generators, so called "bunker fuel generators" made from old ship engines,{{cite web|title=Arctic Sunrise, Greenpeace USA|url=http://members.greenpeace.org/gpblog/index.php?blog=662&cat=938&page=1&disp=posts&paged=8|publisher=Greenpeace USA|access-date=2011-02-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070219001741/http://members.greenpeace.org/gpblog/index.php?blog=662|archive-date=2007-02-19|url-status=dead}} that previously provided electricity to the towns.{{cite web|title=QORLORTORSUAQ – Hydroelectric Project|publisher=Verkis|url=http://www.verkis.com/projects/energy/hydro-power/nr/1729|access-date = 2011-02-13}}