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Keila Falls

waterfall in Estonia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ38852 ↗
Source-derived summary

Keila Falls (Estonian: Keila juga) is a waterfall in northern Estonia on the Keila River. It is the third most powerful waterfall in Estonia after Narva Falls and Jägala Waterfall. It is 6 metres (20 feet) high and 60–70 metres (200–230 feet) wide.

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“Keila Falls” enters the record as waterfall in Estonia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Keila, Falls and waterfall can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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“Keila Falls” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Keila, Falls and waterfall provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q38852. Authority coordinates are 59.396, 24.295. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Keila Falls” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.