Puhatu Wetland Complex ( et, Puhatu soostik) is a bog in

Ida-Viru County Ida-Viru County ( et, Ida-Viru maakond or ''Ida-Virumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is the most north-eastern part of the country. The county contains large deposits of oil shale - the main mineral mined in Estonia. Oil shale is used ...

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 ...

.Mall Orru. Eesti turbasood. Eesti Geoloogiakeskus, Tallinn. Page 240 The bog extends from northern bank of

Lake Peipus Lake Peipus ( et, Peipsi-Pihkva järv; russian: Чудско-Псковское озеро, Псковско-Чудское озеро, Chudsko-Pskovskoye ozero, Pskovsko-Chudskoye ozero); is the largest trans-boundary lake in Europe, lying on ...

to Auvere-Narva line. It is part of Estonia's largest

mire A mire, peatland, or quagmire is a wetland area dominated by living peat-forming plants. Mires arise because of incomplete decomposition of organic matter, usually litter from vegetation, due to water-logging and subsequent anoxia. All types ...

system Agusalu-Puhatu. The complex is protected ( Puhatu Nature Reserve, Agusalu Nature Reserve). The area of the bog is 57,079 ha.

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Ida-Viru County Bogs of Estonia {{Estonia-geo-stub

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