Mārupe (german: Marienbach) is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

in and the centre of

Mārupe Municipality Mārupe Municipality ( lv, Mārupes novads) is a municipality in Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2009 by reorganization of Mārupe Parish. The administrative centre is Mārupe. On 1 July 2021, Mārupe Municipality was reformed and enlarge ...

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

. Mārupe is in practice a suburb of the Latvian capital,

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

, and is the headquarters of the Latvian Bandy Federation. A small

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

Mārupīte flows through the town. According to the provisions of the 2021 Latvian administrative reform, Mārupe gained city rights (town status) on 1 July 2022.

Economy

The largest

business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for pr ...

es registered in Mārupe in 2020 were: road transport company "Kreiss", auto parts saler "Inter Cars Latvija", computers saler "Also Latvia", electricals and computers saler "MoonCom".Lursoft statistics
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Roads

The main road through Mārupe is Riga-Jaunmārupe (P1132). Two big roads are the borders of town: Rīga-

Eleja Eleja is a village in Latvia, center of the Eleja parish in Jelgava municipality. Number of inhabitants - around 800. Located 27 km south from Jelgava it spreads along the A8 highway crossroads with the regional P103 road. Meitene railro ...

( A8) and Rīga- Ventspils ( A10). The center of

is 9 km from Mārupe to north-east. Nearest

railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

passenger A passenger (also abbreviated as pax) is a person who travels in a vehicle, but does not bear any responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle, and is not a steward. The ...

station is Tīraine 2 km to west from center of Mārupe.

Train In rail transport, a train (from Old French , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and Passenger train, transport people or Rail freight transport, freight. Trains are typically pul ...

s through Tīraine to Riga and Jelgava go 26 times daily. Riga city buses also reach Mārupe.

References

Towns in Latvia Mārupe Municipality {{Latvian regional cities