The Amata River valley | February 2021

Winter continues to delight us with snowy days this year! ⛄️ The Amata is a river in Gauja National Park in the Middle Latvian Lowland. The riverbanks feature Devonian red sandstone cliffs and rapids. The River Amata is one of Latvia's fastest rivers. It has one of the deepest and most unusual valleys of all the rivers in Vidzeme, with up to 45 m high sandstone and dolomite bedrock banks. One of the steepest bank of Amata is the Zvārtes rock. It is more than 350 million years old and its height measures 20 m.