The Tõrvajõgi is a river in

Ida-Viru County Ida-Viru County ( or ; ) is one of the 15 counties of Estonia. It is the most northeastern part of the country. The county contains large deposits of oil shale the main mineral mined in Estonia. Oil shale is used in the production of shale oil ...

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

. The river is 16.1 km long, and its basin size is 43.7 km². It discharges into the

Narva River The Narva, formerly also Narwa or Narova, flows north into the Baltic Sea and is the largest Estonian river by discharge. A similar length of land far to the south, together with it and a much longer intermediate lake, Lake Peipus, all togeth ...

. Tõrvajõgi Falls is located on the river. The name ''Tõrvajõgi'' means 'tar river' (from Estonian ''tõrv'' 'tar'), referring to the dark color of the water.

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Rivers of Estonia Ida-Viru County {{Estonia-river-stub