Staburags
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Staburags or Staburadze was an unusual high cliff on the bank of the Daugava River in Latvia shaped and formed by lime-rich springs. According to a legend, it was once a girl in mourning who was petrified.
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- waterfall
- Country
- Latvia
- Located in
- Staburags Parish
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Staburags or Staburadze was an unusual high cliff on the bank of the Daugava River in Latvia shaped and formed by lime-rich springs. According to a legend, it was once a girl in mourning who was petrified.
Since 1965, the cliff has been submerged at a depth of due to the construction of the Pļaviņas Hydroelectric Power Station dam.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Staburags” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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