25 June 2012

Venta waterfall (Kuldiga, Latvia)


The widest rapid (817 feet/249 meters) and waterfall in Europe, located on the Venta River in Kuldiga, Latvia.  I also found this video (narrated in Latvian), which documents some of the history of salmon fishing at the site:


With a hat tip to Aleksejs, one of the Latvian readers of this blog.

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