Ķekava
Ķekava is a city in Latvia and the center of Ķekava Municipality, in the historical region of Vidzeme. It is on the left side of the Sausā Daugava, a tributary of the Daugava River. It is also the extra-territorial center of the adjacent Ķekava Parish.
- Type: Town with 4,970 residents
- Description: town and capital of Ķekava Municipality, Latvia
- Also known as: “Keckau”, “Liel Ķekava”, and “Tekava”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Daugavas muzejs and Dole Island Nature Park.
Dole Island Nature Park
Nature reserve
Riga Hydroelectric Power Plant
Industrial building
Riga Hydroelectric Power Plant in Latvia is located just beyond Riga's southern border. It is geographically located in the town of Salaspils. Total installed power generating capacity is 402 MW. Riga Hydroelectric Power Plant is situated 3½ km northeast of Ķekava.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Odukalns and Vimbukrogs.
Dārziņi
Suburb
Dārziņi is a neighbourhood of Riga, the capital of Latvia, which is located in the Latgale Suburb. The neighbourhood mostly consists of summer homes and small plant gardens for personal use, and it is the southernmost neighbourhood of Riga. Dārziņi is situated 5 km northeast of Ķekava.
Ķekava
- Categories: city under municipality jurisdiction in Latvia and locality
- Location: Ķekavas pagasts, Ķekava, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.82618° or 56° 49′ 34″ north
Longitude
24.23365° or 24° 14′ 1″ east
Population
4,970
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
United Nations Location Code
LV KKV
Open location code
9G86R6GM+FF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Ķekava from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Ķekava” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ከካቫ”
- Arabic: “كيكافا”
- Armenian: “Կեկավա”
- Azerbaijani: “Kekava”
- Basque: “Keckau”
- Basque: “Ķekava”
- Belarusian: “Кекава”
- Bengali: “কেকাভা”
- Catalan: “Ķekava”
- Cebuano: “Ķekava”
- Chinese: “凱卡瓦”
- Chinese: “基耶卡瓦”
- Czech: “Ķekava”
- Danish: “Kekava”
- Danish: “Ķekava”
- Dutch: “Keckau”
- Dutch: “Ķekava”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيكاڤا”
- Esperanto: “Keckau”
- Esperanto: “Ķekava”
- Esperanto: “Ķekavas novads”
- Estonian: “Kekava”
- Estonian: “Ķekava”
- French: “Keckau”
- French: “Kekava”
- French: “Ķekava”
- German: “Keckau”
- German: “Kekava”
- German: “Ķekava”
- Hausa: “Kekava”
- Hindi: “केकावा”
- Hungarian: “Ķekava”
- Indonesian: “Kekava”
- Italian: “Keckau”
- Italian: “Ķekava”
- Japanese: “キェッカヴァ”
- Japanese: “ケカヴァ”
- Javanese: “Kekava”
- Kazakh: “Кекава”
- Kirghiz: “Кекава”
- Latvian: “Keckau”
- Latvian: “Ķekava”
- Latvian: “Tekava”
- Lithuanian: “Kekava”
- Malay: “Kekava”
- Moksha: “Кэкава”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Keckau”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ķekava”
- Oromo: “Kekava”
- Ossetian: “Кекавæ”
- Panjabi: “ਕੇਕਾਵਾ”
- Persian: “ککاوا”
- Persian: “کهکاوا”
- Polish: “Ķekava”
- Portuguese: “Kekava”
- Pushto: “کیکاوا”
- Russian: “Кекава”
- Slovak: “Ķekava”
- Slovenian: “Keckau”
- Slovenian: “Ķekava”
- Somali: “Kekava”
- Spanish: “Keckau”
- Spanish: “Kekava”
- Spanish: “Ķekava”
- Swahili: “Kekava”
- Swedish: “Ķekava”
- Tajik: “Кекава”
- Tatar: “Кекава”
- Turkish: “Kekava”
- Ukrainian: “Кекава”
- Ukrainian: “Кєкава”
- Urdu: “کیکاوا”
- Uzbek: “Kekava”
- “Ķekava”
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