Pastaku is a village in

Elva Parish Elva is a rural parish in the Estonian Tartu County with an area of . As of 2017, it has a population of 14241 inhabitants. It was created in 2017 from the merger of the municipality Elva with the rural communities Konguta Parish, Puhja Parish, ...

Valga County Valga County ( et, Valga maakond or ''Valgamaa'') is a first-level administrative unit and one of 15 counties of Estonia. It comprises the former area of Valga District. The present-day county was created on 1 January 1990. The capital and larg ...

in southeastern

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

. It is located just north of

Hellenurme Hellenurme (german: Hellenorm) is a village in Valga County in southeastern Estonia. (retrieved 28 July 2021) It is located about south of the town of Elva and about northwest of the town of Otepää. Hellenurme was the administrative centre of ...

, the administrative centre of the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

; the town of

Elva Elva may refer to: Places *Elva, Estonia, town in Tartu County, Estonia *Elva Parish, municipality in Estonia *Elva (river), a river in Estonia *Elva, Illinois, unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States *Elva, Manitoba, u ...

is located about north of Hellenurme. Pastaku has a population of 45 (as of 1 January 2011). The

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of ...

– Valga railway passes Pastaku on its western side, but there is no station. The nearest station is located about 4 km southwest in

Palupera Palupera is a village in Elva Parish, Valga County in southeastern Estonia. It's located about northwest of the town of Otepää and about southwest of the town of Elva. Palupera has a population of 198 (as of 1 January 2011). Politician Mai T ...

village.

References

Villages in Valga County {{valga-geo-stub