The Obelis is a river of Ukmergė district municipality and Kėdainiai district municipality, central

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. It flows for and has a basin area of . It is a left tributary of the Nevėžis near

Kėdainiai Kėdainiai () is one of the oldest List of cities in Lithuania, cities in Lithuania. It is located north of Kaunas on the banks of the Nevėžis River. First mentioned in the 1372 Livonian Chronicle of Hermann de Wartberge, its population is 23, ...

. The river valley is 200–220 m wide and 8–14 m high. The width of the river course is 5–12 m. The rapidness of the current is 0,2–0,3 meters per second. There are Kapliai Reservoir,

Bubliai Reservoir The Bubliai Reservoir is an artificial lake in Kėdainiai District Municipality, central Lithuania. It is located east from Kėdainiai, next to Aristava village. It was created in 1980, when a dam on the Obelis The Obelis is a river of Ukmerg� ...

and

Juodkiškiai Reservoir The Juodkiškiai Reservoir is an artificial lake in Kėdainiai District Municipality, central Lithuania. It is located east from Kėdainiai, next to Taučiūnai village. It was created in 1980, when a dam on the Obelis river had been built next t ...

dammed on the Obelis river. It flows through

Paobelys Paobelys (''Paobelė'', formerly russian: Поабель, pl, Poabele) is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 293 people. It is locate ...

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, Aukštieji Kapliai,

Aristava Aristava (formerly ''Lukšiakaimis'', russian: Орвистово, Лукшакаймис, pl, Orwistów) is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a pop ...

, and meets the Nevėžis in Kėdainiai. The river name ''Obelis'' derives from the

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word ''obelis'' ('

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