Kikkajärv
border lake between Estonia and Latvia
Kikkajärv (also Kika järv, Suur-Kikkajärv) or Ilgājs as it is known in Latvia, is a lake on the border between Estonia and Latvia. Most of the lake lies in the Estonian village of Paganamaa in Rõuge Parish, Võru County. The lake is in the Veclaicene Protected Landscape Area. The nearest settlement to the lake in Latvia is Korneti in Alūksne Municipality.
Physical description
The lake has an area of 20.5 hectares (51 acres). The lake has an average depth of 11.7 meters (38 ft) and a maximum depth of 22.5 meters (74 ft). It is 960 meters (3,150 ft) long, and its shoreline measures 2,520 meters (8,270 ft).
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This entry incorporates text from “Kikkajärv” 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.