River
Pedja River
125 km from source to mouth · Estonia.
EstoniaFlows into Emajõgi4th longest in Estonia
In numbers
Length
125km
Average flow
11m³/s
Basin
2,688km²
Drop
54m
from 88 m to 34 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
125 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 88 m
- 10 kmRakke1,015 people
- 40 kmSalla Rivertributary
- 49 kmOnga Rivertributary
- 58 kmJõgeva6,396 people
- 101 kmPikknurme Rivertributary
- 101 kmKaave Rivertributary
- 113 kmPõltsamaa Rivertributary
- 120 kmUmbusi Rivertributary
- 125 kmEmajõgiat 34 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Estonia
At the mouth it carries 11 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 229 seconds. It drops from 88 m to 34 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,688 km², about the size of LU. 25,000 people live in it. Highest water: April; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- JõgevaLargest city on its banks · 6,396 people
- Tartu Airport (TAY)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 52 km from the cityCar hire at TAY airport (Tartu)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Pedja River, month by month
Highest water: April
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 8.1 m³/s in the lowest month to 60 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Pedja River: the basin in numbers
2,075 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 25,000people live in the basin
- 12/km²people per km²
- 91maverage altitude of the basin
- 625mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 4.8°Caverage air temperature
- 7%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 36% Forest
- 26% Cropland
- 4% Pasture
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Pedja River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 5River beachesSeljajärve rand, Jõgeva aleviku beach, Jõgeva linna beach and 2 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Pedja River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
4mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (4)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Emumägi12 km away166m
- Kellavere Hill7.8 km away156m
- Ebavere Hill12 km away146m
- Edru Drumlin11 km away · prominence 40 m133m
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Pedja River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
EmajõgiEstonia100 km70 m³/sTributaries (8)
Also: Umbusi River, Kaave River, Pikknurme River, Onga River, Salla River, Paduvere Stream, Karaski Stream
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Estonia136 km16 m³/s8 km awayAhja RiverEstonia104 km72 m³/s48 km awayVõhandu RiverEstonia165 km11 m³/s76 km awayNavesti RiverEstonia102 km280 m³/s87 km awayPärnu RiverEstonia145 km48 m³/s109 km awayVelikaya
Russia430 km130 m³/s117 km awayPiusa RiverEstonia109 km5.1 m³/s99 km awayNarvaEstonia74 km400 m³/s153 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1518531) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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