Venta (river)

This article is about the river. For the city in Lithuania, see Venta.

Venta
The Venta river in Kuldīga
Origin	near Kuršėnai, Lithuania
Mouth	Baltic Sea at Ventspils, Latvia.
Basin countries	Latvia (67%), Lithuania (33%)
Length	346 km (178 km in Latvia)
Avg. discharge	44 m³/s
Basin area	11,800 km²

The Venta (Latvian pronunciation [ˈvænta], Lithuanian Template:IPA-lt, German: Windau, Polish: Windawa, Livonian Vǟnta joug) is a river in north-western Lithuania and western Latvia. Its source is near Kuršėnai in the Lithuanian Šiauliai County. It flows into the Baltic Sea at Ventspils in Latvia.

Mouth of Venta in Ventspils

Towns along the Venta include Mažeikiai (Lithuania), Kuldīga and Ventspils (Latvia). It has only one tributary longer than 100 km, the Abava. Other major tributaries include the Virvyčia (99.7 km) and the Varduva (96 km), which flows into the Venta at the Lithuanian-Latvian border.

Smaller tributaries include the Avižlys, which runs for 20 kilometers and flows into the Venta River at Akmenė district municipality, Šiauliai County, northern Lithuania.

See also

• Ventas rumba