Rivers

Emajõgi (also a great Emajõgi) is Estonia's largest rivers. The Emajõgi is a river in Estonia which flows from Lake Võrtsjärv through Tartu County into Lake Peipus, crossing the city of Tartu for 10 km. It has a length of 101 km. The name Emajõgi means "Mother River" in Estonian. The Emajõgi is sometimes called the Suur Emajõgi ("Great Emajõgi"), in contrast with the Väike Emajõgi ("Little Emajõgi"), another river which flows into the southern end of Lake Võrtsjärv. It has a peaceful flow, because the decline of the river is only 3.6 cm per km. The largest tributaries are Pede, Ahja, Elva, Amme and Laeva. In the upper- and lower reaches of the river are speading bogs and meadows, which are under water during flooding. In the middle of the river Emajõe runs along old valley. Emajõgi is navigable an entire extent. The Emajõgi is characterized by the marshy banks, which has made difficult of building the bridges as well as year-round crossing of the river throughout the centuries. One of the few places where a hard soil goes directly to the river on the both sides of the river, is Tartu. There was also historically oldest river-crossing point, near which the city of Tartu arose more than 1000 years ago.

Valgejõgi (lit. White River) is a river in Northern Estonia, with a lenght of 85 km. Its source is in Lake Porkuni in Pandivere (Lääne-Viru County) and it drains into Hara Bay (part of Finnish Gulf) at Loksa (Harju County). The river borders the Põhja (North)-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve and flows through Lahemaa National Park. The towns of Loksa (in the mouth) and Tapa (about 17 km from the source) are the only bigger settlements on the river.
19 km upstream from the river mouth the river flows over the Baltic Klint, forming the Nõmmeveski waterfall. The waterfall and Nõmmeveski canyon (several tens of meters deep and a few hundred meters long) are a popular tourist destination in Lahemaa National Park.