Nemunėlis
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Nemunėlis () is a river in northern Lithuania and southern Latvia. It originates 6 km south of Rokiškis. It is 191 kilometres long (75 km in Lithuania, 76 km on the Latvia–Lithuania border and 40 km in Latvia) before its confluence with the Mūša, near Bauska, forming the Lielupe.
Key facts
- River.name
- Nemunėlis, Mēmele
- River.image
- Nemunelis ties Bauskes pilimi.JPG
- River.image_caption
- The Mēmele in Bauska city
- River.source1_location
- Lūšna lake in Rokiškis district
- River.mouth_location
- Bauska
- River.mouth
- Lielupe
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Lithuania and Latvia
- River.length_km
- 191
- River.basin_size_km2
- 4048
- River.tributaries_left
- Bėnupė, Apaščia
- River.tributaries_right
- Nereta, Dienvidsusēja, Viesīte
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Nemunėlis () is a river in northern Lithuania and southern Latvia. It originates 6 km south of Rokiškis. It is 191 kilometres long (75 km in Lithuania, 76 km on the Latvia–Lithuania border and 40 km in Latvia) before its confluence with the Mūša, near Bauska, forming the Lielupe.
==Names== This river does not belong to the basin of the larger river Neman, but the two rivers' names are related in several languages: in Lithuanian, "Nemunėlis" is a diminutive form of "Nemunas" (Neman) in German, "Memel" is used for both the Neman River and the city of Klaipėda, and "Memele" is its diminutive form in Latvian, the river is called "Mēmele", possibly derived from German, or directly from Old Prussian in which it is thought to mean "surrounded by water" in Estonian, it is called "Memele jõgi"
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nemunėlis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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