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Venta (river)

Venta
The Venta river in Kuldīga
Location
Country	Latvia (67%), Lithuania (33%)
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	near Užventis, Lithuania
Mouth
• location	Baltic SeaatVentspils, Latvia.
Length	346 km (215 mi) (178 km or 111 mi in Latvia)
Basin size	11,800 km2 (4,600 sq mi)
Discharge
• average	44 m3/s (1,600 cu ft/s)

The Venta (Latvian pronunciation [ˈvænta], Lithuanian [venˈta] ^ⓘ, German: Windau, Polish: Windawa, Livonian Vǟnta joug) is a river in north-western Lithuania and western Latvia. Its source is near Kuršėnai in the Lithuanian Šiauliai County. It flows into the Baltic SeaatVentspils in Latvia.

On the territory of Lithuania along the Venta are cities Užventis, Kuršėnai, Venta, Viekšniai and Mažeikiai. In Latvia, the cities of Kuldīga, Piltene and Ventspils are located on the Venta river.

Venta Rapid, the widest waterfall in Europe, is on Venta river in Kuldīga, Latvia.

The river has only one tributary longer than 100 km, the Abava. Other major tributaries include the Virvyčia (99.7 km) and the Varduva (96 km), which flows into the Venta at the Latvia–Lithuania border.

Smaller tributaries include the Avižlys, which runs for 20 kilometers and flows into the Venta River^[1] and the 30 kilometre Uogys which joins the Venta less than 1 km upstream of the Avižlys at Akmenė district municipality, Šiauliai County, northern Lithuania.

• Ventas rumba

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