Valaste
Valaste (German Wallast ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Kohtla. It is located in the north-east Estonian district of Ida-Viru . Valaste was first mentioned in the 13th century in the Liber Census Daniæ as Uvalat . As of December 31, 2011, the village had 105 inhabitants.
waterfall
The village is best known for the Valaste juga , a waterfall that, at 30.5 meters, is the highest in Estonia . The first written mention of the waterfall dates back to 1840, when the German-Baltic magazine Das Inland, published in Tartu , described it as a natural wonder.
The waterfall is located between the Ontika manor and the western outskirts of Valaste. There, not far from the Baltic Sea beach, the water from a drainage ditch created around 200 years ago falls over the steep northern edge of the limestone plateau on which the northern part of Ida-Virumaa extends. In winter, natural ice sculptures form there in strong sea winds and suddenly falling temperatures. The waterfall is a popular tourist destination in the region.
Web links
- Valaste küla - description of the village on the tourism platform eesti.ee (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dataset PC003 Population by place of residence (settlement), sex and age, 31 December 2011. (based on the 2011 census, English version) Statistics database on Statistics Estonia (pub.stat.ee), for Valaste accessed on 26. February 2019
- ↑ Valaste juga on the tourism platform eesti.ee (Estonian).
- ↑ Tõnis Saadre: Eesti ürgloodus [Primeval nature of Estonia]. Eesti Geoloogiakeskus, Tallinn 2010, pp. 45, 49 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove it Note - Chapter on Ida-Virumaa; bilingual publication in Estonian and English).
Coordinates: 59 ° 26 ' N , 27 ° 22' E