The Amata is a river in Gauja National Park in the Middle Latvian Lowland. It flows from lake Kukala in

Vidzeme Vidzeme (; Old Latvian orthography: ''Widda-semme'', ) is one of the Historical Latvian Lands. The capital of Latvia, Riga, is situated in the southwestern part of the region. Literally meaning "the Middle Land", it is situated in north-centra ...

to the river

Gauja The Gauja River (, ) is a river in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. It is the only large river of Latvia that begins and ends its flow in Latvia. Its length is 460 km, of which 93.5 km (approximately one-fifth) are in Gauja National P ...

. The riverbanks feature

Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a period (geology), geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era during the Phanerozoic eon (geology), eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian per ...

red

sandstone Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...

cliffs , and rapids. The River Amata is one of

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's fastest rivers and has one of the deepest valleys of the rivers in

, with up to high sandstone and dolomite

bedrock In geology, bedrock is solid rock that lies under loose material ( regolith) within the crust of Earth or another terrestrial planet. Definition Bedrock is the solid rock that underlies looser surface material. An exposed portion of bed ...

banks. One of the steepest bank of Amata is the Zvārtes rock. It is more than 350 million years old and its height measures . It is one of the most popular sandstone outcrops in Latvia.

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* {{Coord, 57, 18, N, 25, 08, E, display=title, region:LV_type:river_source:GNS-enwiki Rivers of Latvia Gauja basin Cēsis Municipality