Key facts
- Country
- Estonia
- Location
- Pususoo , Järva County
- Elevation
- 75 m (246 ft)
- Length
- 105 km (65 mi)
- Basin size
- 799 km (308 sq mi)
- Average
- 8 m /s (280 cu ft/s)
- Left
- Kuivajõgi , Tuhala
- Right
- Leivajõgi
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Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Pirita River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Tallinn Bay
- watershed area
- 807.8
- discharge
- 7.5
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- name
- Piritajoki
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Pirita (Estonian: Pirita jõgi) is a 105 km (65 mi) long river in northern Estonia that drains into the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea in the Pirita district of the capital city Tallinn. The basin area of the river is 799 km.
As part of the Tallinn water supply system, the Pirita is impounded into the Paunküla and Vaskjala reservoirs. The reservoir in Vaskjala is connected over a canal to the Lake Ülemiste in Tallinn, where the Ülemiste Water Treatment Plant is situated. Additional water is directed to the Pirita from the Jägala, Soodla, and Pärnu rivers through a canal network that joins the Pirita in Veskitaguse.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pirita River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.