River
Keila River
112 km from source to mouth · Estonia.
EstoniaFlows into Keila6th longest in Estonia
In numbers
Length
112km
Average flow
8.6m³/s
Basin
669km²
Drop
64m
from 64 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
112 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmKaiu Rural Municipalityat 64 m
- 39 kmAtla Rivertributary
- 50 kmKohila3,355 people
- 90 kmKeila10,068 people
- 109 kmKeila Waterfall
- 112 kmKeilaat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Estonia
At the mouth it carries 8.6 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 292 seconds. It drops from 64 m to 0 m, 0.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 669 km².
Where to start
- KeilaLargest city on its banks · 10,068 people
- Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 27 km from the cityCar hire at TLL airport (Tallinn)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Keila River: what you find on the way
- 4Weirs
- 2WaterfallsKeila waterfall, Türisalu joastik
- 3River beachesPirgu beach, Keila Jõepargi beach, Keila Mõisa beach
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Keila River 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.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
1beach at the mouth or on the banksCoastya
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
4islands off the mouthIslandyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Keila Waterfallkm 82
Cascadyas is coming soonOpen Cascadyas ↗
Beaches (1)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Lohusalu Abajas3.9 km away · cove17.5°C
Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Aasumägi8.5 km away77m
Islands off the mouth (4)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Naissaar22 km away19km²
- Väike-Pakri19 km away
- Suur-Pakri23 km away
- Liivakari18 km away
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
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
Keila River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Atla River, Maidla River
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Estonia107 km7.5 m³/s32 km awayKasari RiverEstonia115 km37 m³/s76 km awayPärnu RiverEstonia145 km48 m³/s115 km awayNavesti RiverEstonia102 km280 m³/s106 km awayPedja RiverEstonia125 km11 m³/s162 km awayPõltsamaa RiverEstonia136 km16 m³/s157 km awayAura River
Finland70 km17 m³/s161 km awayNarvaEstonia74 km400 m³/s213 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1542679) · 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 | Cascadyas, Coastya, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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