The Piusa (russian: Пиуза ''Piuza'' or ''Pimzha'') is a river 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 ...

and, for the last 14 km before draining into Lake Pihkva, in

Pskov Oblast Pskov Oblast (russian: Пско́вская о́бласть, ') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the west of the country. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

. For a 17-km-long section near

Pechory Pechory (russian: Печо́ры; Estonian and Seto: ') is a town and the administrative centre of Pechorsky District in the Pskov Oblast, Russia. Its population in the 2010 Census was 11,195, having fallen from 13,056 recorded i ...

Piusa is the border river between Estonia and the Russian Federation. The Piusa has the greatest drop of all Estonian rivers (214 metres).

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Landforms of Põlva County Rivers of Estonia Rivers of Pskov Oblast Landforms of Võru County International rivers of Europe Estonia–Russia border Border rivers {{Russia-river-stub

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