Valaste Waterfall
Valaste Falls is the highest waterfall in Estonia and neighboring regions. It is located between Ontika and Valaste in Toila Parish of Ida-Viru County and is formed by Valaste Creek as it flows over the Baltic Klint not far from the shore of the Gulf of Finland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Waterfall
- Description: waterfall in Estonia
- Also known as: “Valaste Falls”
Photo: Simm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Aleksander Kaasik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ontika mõisa peahoone and Karjaoru waterfall.
Ontika mõisa peahoone
Manor estate
Photo: Ren12, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
Ontika mõisa peahoone is a manor estate, which is situated 2 km west of Valaste Waterfall.
Karjaoru waterfall
Waterfall
Karjaoru Falls is a waterfall in northern Estonia. It is located in the village of Saka in Toila Parish, Ida-Viru County. The water of the falls comes from the main channel of Ontika Creek, a drainage ditch. Karjaoru waterfall is situated 3½ km west of Valaste Waterfall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kohtla-Järve.
Kohtla-Järve
Photo: Amadvr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kohtla-Järve is in East Estonia. Kohtla-Järve is an agglomeration of industrial settlements in Eastern Estonia. Separate parts of this unusual and rather conditional city are separated from each other by tens of kilometers.
Valaste Waterfall
- Categories: tourism, tourist attraction, and body of water
- Location: Kaasikvälja küla, Toila Parish, Ida-Viru County, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.44384° or 59° 26′ 38″ northLongitude
27.3351° or 27° 20′ 6″ eastHeight
30 metres (98 feet)Open location code
9GF9C8VP+G2OpenStreetMap ID
node 794634068OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfallWikidata ID
Q37426
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Panjabi—“Valaste Waterfall” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Վալաստե”
- Azerbaijani: “Valaste şəlaləsi”
- Belarusian: “Валастэ (вадаспад)”
- Belarusian: “Валастэ”
- Czech: “Valaste juga”
- Czech: “Valastský vodopád”
- Dutch: “Valastewaterval”
- Estonian: “Valaste juga”
- French: “cascade de Valaste”
- French: “Cascade de Valaste”
- Galician: “Fervenza de Valaste”
- Georgian: “ვალასტე”
- Latvian: “Valastes ūdenskritums”
- Lithuanian: “Valastės krioklys”
- Mazanderani: “ئوشار والاست جوگا”
- Mazanderani: “والاست جوگا ئوشار”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Valaste juga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Valastefossen”
- Persian: “آبشار والاست جوگا”
- Persian: “آبشار والاست”
- Persian: “ابشار والاست جوگا”
- Persian: “ابشار والاست”
- Polish: “Valaste”
- Portuguese: “Cascata de Valaste”
- Russian: “Валасте”
- Russian: “Водопад Валасте”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Valaste (vodopad)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Valaste”
- Spanish: “Cascada de Valaste”
- Tajik: “Валасте Ҷуга”
- Tajik: “Обшори Валасте Ҷуга”
- Tajik: “Шаршараи Валасте Ҷуга”
- Ukrainian: “Валасте”
- Urdu: “والاست یوگا آبشار”
- Western Panjabi: “والاست یوگا آبشار”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ontika raba and Valaste tulepaak.
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