Irbe (river)

River in Latvia

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Irbe (also Dižirbe, Dižirve, Irbes upe, Irve, Livonian: Īra) is a coastal river on the northern Courland Peninsula, Latvia.^[1] Of length 32 km, it starts as the confluence of Stende and Rinda [lv] rivers ^[1] and it follows the coastline of the Irbe Strait, reaching the Baltic Sea in the Irbe Strait about halfway between the promontories of the Oviši Lighthouse and cape Kolka.^[2] It runs within the Tārgale parish, Ventspils district.^[1] Its only significant tributary (left) is Dižgrāvis [lv].

The brown moor water of the river constantly moves large sandbanks in its estuary. The river is used as spawning ground by brown trout.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Irbe at the Latvian placename database
^ Irbe river, location map on google.com/maps.
^ The Baltic coast, video by Free High-Quality Documentaries on youtube.com. For cape Kolka, see 38'16 - 38'30. For Slītere national park, see 38'31 - 38'42. For the Ilbe river brown moor waters reaching the sea, see 38'43 - 38'48. For the sandbanks, see 38'48 - 39'06. For brown trouts reproducing up river, see 39'06 - 39'33.