River
Pirita River
107 km from source to mouth · Estonia.
EstoniaFlows into Tallinn Bay8th longest in Estonia
In numbers
Length
107km
Average flow
7.5m³/s
Basin
808km²
Drop
69m
from 72 m to 3 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
107 km of river and 7 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 72 m
- 0 kmPaunküla Reservoir4.1 km²
- 34 kmTuhala Rivertributary
- 34 kmAngerja Streamtributary
- 34 kmVaida1,016 people
- 53 kmLoo2,093 people
- 60 kmKose2,232 people
- 62 kmPirita18,310 people
- 64 kmTallinn Bayat 3 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 7.5 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 333 seconds. It drops from 72 m to 3 m, 0.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 808 km².
Where to start
- PiritaLargest city on its banks · 18,310 people
- Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 6 km from the cityCar hire at TLL airport (Tallinn)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water8 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Pirita River: what you find on the way
- 6Weirs
- 4Boat ramps
- 1Ferry piers
- 2MarinasKalevi Jahtklubi Marina, Pirita Marina
- 9River beachesPaunküla Kiigemäe beach, Rõõsa beach, Kose beach and 6 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Pirita 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
1beach at the mouth or on the banksCoastya
15islands off the mouthIslandyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Paunküla Reservoirkm 04.1km²
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Beaches (1)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Stroomi rand8.6 km away17.4°C
Islands off the mouth (15)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Naissaar21 km away19km²
- Aegna13 km away3.0km²
- Prangli20 km away6.4km²
- Keri28 km away0.0km²
- Aksi21 km away0.6km²
- Rammu25 km away1.0km²
- Kräsuli12 km away0.2km²
- Kumbli12 km away0.0km²
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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
Pirita River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Angerja Stream, Tuhala River
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Estonia112 km8.6 m³/s32 km awayKasari RiverEstonia115 km37 m³/s99 km awayPärnu RiverEstonia145 km48 m³/s123 km awayNavesti RiverEstonia102 km280 m³/s108 km awayPedja RiverEstonia125 km11 m³/s146 km awayNarvaEstonia74 km400 m³/s182 km awayPõltsamaa RiverEstonia136 km16 m³/s140 km awayKymi River
Finland204 km300 m³/s163 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1139148) · 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 | Lakeyas, Coastya, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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