The Agluona is a river of
AkmenÄ— district municipality
AkmenÄ— District Municipality ( Lithuanian: AkmenÄ—s rajono savivaldybÄ—) is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania. It lies in the Northwest of the country, with the administrative center in Naujoji AkmenÄ— and borders Latvia in the north, JoniÅ ...
,
Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...
. It flows for 23.4 kilometres and has a basin area of
188 km². It is a left tributary of the
Vadakstis river (the
Venta River
The Venta (Latvian pronunciation , Lithuanian , , , 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 Ventspil ...
basin).
It starts near
Stipirkiai village and flows north-westwards. It meets the Vadakstis near
Kesiai village, by the Latvian border.
Kivyliai settlement is located by the Agluona, where the Kivyliai Reservoir is located (area ).
The name ''Agluona'' comes from lt, eglÄ—, aglÄ— '
spruce tree
A spruce is a tree of the genus ''Picea'' (), a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth. ''Picea'' is the sole genus in the subfamil ...
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References
Rivers of Lithuania
AkmenÄ— District Municipality
Venta River basin
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