River
Aiviekste
114 km from source to mouth · Latvia.
LatviaFlows into Daugava7th longest in Latvia
In numbers
Length
114km
Average flow
1.8m³/s
Basin
9,160km²
Drop
17m
from 88 m to 71 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
114 km of river and 7 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmLake Lubānsat 88 m
- 1 kmLake Lubāns81 km²
- 18 kmIčatributary
- 33 kmPededzetributary
- 34 kmLubāna1,410 people
- 39 kmLiedetributary
- 113 kmVesetatributary
- 113 kmPļaviņas2,864 people
- 114 kmDaugavaat 71 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Latvia
At the mouth it carries 1.8 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1,381 seconds. Its basin covers 9,160 km², about the size of PR. 1.6 million people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from January to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- PļaviņasLargest city on its banks · 2,864 people
- Riga International Airport (RIX)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 112 km from the cityCar hire at RIX airport (Riga)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Aiviekste, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from January to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 350 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,500 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.
The basin
Aiviekste: the basin in numbers
80,058 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.6millionpeople live in the basin
- 20/km²people per km²
- 165maverage altitude of the basin
- 645mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 5.1°Caverage air temperature
- 14%protected areas
- 2.4%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 53% Forest
- 23% Cropland
- 10% Pasture
- 1% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Aiviekste: what you find on the way
- 6Weirs
- 1WaterfallsSkanstupītes ūdenskritums
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Aiviekste in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lake Lubānskm 1 · 4 m deep81km²
Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Aiviekste in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
DaugavaLatvia1,020 km680 m³/sTributaries (6)
Also: Pededze, Iča, Kuja, Liede, Veseta, Arona
In the same basin
BelarusNearby
Rivers nearby
Latvia453 km71 m³/s108 km awayOgre RiverLatvia203 km18 m³/s74 km awayLielupeLatvia119 km110 m³/s122 km awayNemunėlisLatvia191 km95 m³/s105 km awaySalacaLatvia99 km31 m³/s153 km awayVelikaya
Russia430 km130 m³/s201 km awayNeris
Lithuania510 km180 m³/s225 km awayŠventojiLithuania246 km55 m³/s191 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q176087) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
The family
Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers or canyons?
Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, month by month, in seven languages.
beaches
Find your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakes
Every lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Coming soonVisit 
mountains
Every summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit 
waterfalls
Every waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Coming soonVisit 
islands
Every island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Coming soonVisit 
rivers
Every river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.You are here
canyons
Every canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Coming soonVisit