Orsa, Sweden Orsa, Sweden Orsa is a locality and the seat of Orsa Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden, with 5,308 inhabitants (2010). It is located in the northern part of lake Siljan, about north of the town Mora. Inlandsbanan and European route E45 run through the town and the railroad Bollnäs-Orsa connects. The southern parts of Orsa are characterized by the Siljan Ring, the ring of lakes and rivers in northern Dalarna formed by the big meteorite strike 365 million years ago. In central Orsa, at the ouflow of river Oreälven a sand bank has been built up, in these days enjoyed by
Mora, New Mexico de Cristo Mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking community (based on Mora) confront a threatening world of change. The settlement is mentioned in Willa Cather's 1927 historical novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop"(Book Two, Chapter 2), about the establishment of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Mora was also in Louis L'Amour's Western novel "The Daybreakers", in which the character Orrin Sackett is the fictional marshal of Mora. Mora, New Mexico Mora or is a census-designated place in, and the county seat of, Mora County, New Mexico, United States. It is located about halfway between Las Vegas, and Taos on