Key facts
- Location
- Jägala-Joa , Jõelähtme Parish , Harju County , Estonia
- Elevation
- 84 m (276 ft)
- Total height
- 8 m (26 ft)
- Total width
- 50 m (160 ft)
- Watercourse
- Jägala River
- Average flow rate
- 12.8 m /s (450 cu ft/s)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
A video of the Jägala Waterfall in July 2022 Jägala Waterfall (Estonian: Jägala juga; English: /jɛɡælæ/) is a waterfall in northern Estonia on the Jägala River. It is the largest natural waterfall in Estonia, with a width of about 50 meters (160 ft) and a height of about 8 meters (26 ft). Jägala Waterfall is located in Koogi in Harju County. Jägala Waterfall is also the most powerful waterfall in Estonia, cascading 12.8 cubic meters per second (450 cu ft/s) of water. It can even reach 200 cubic meters per second (7,100 cu ft/s) during spring in high water periods. Though, the cascade stops in the winter, freezing over.
Waterfall and rivers
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jägala Waterfall” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.