Location
State: Latvia
Region: Riga
County: Aloja
Parish: Brīvzemieki
Other references to the location
At the Ezeriņi homestead
Coordinates
lat=57.7116666667, lon=24.92
57° 42′ 42″ N, 24° 55′ 12″ E
Description
The Svētezers Lake (the Holy Lake) is located about 3 km in NE direction of Puikule, about a kilometre in N direction of Puikule – Urga highway. It is a small (according to data base information – about 1 ha in size) marshy lake connected by a canal with the larger Paužezers (lake), which is located closer to the above-mentioned highway and about 0.2 km in SE direction of the Svētezers Lake. From the NW side, the marshy Struņķupīte river flows into the lake. The banks of the Svētezers Lake are hard to approach; a fishermen’s path winds along the lake. The uninhabited Ezeriņi homestead is located the closest to the lake, which is about 300 m W of the Svētezers. In another homestead of Brīvzemnieki, the lake’s name was well known, but they could not explain its origin.
Attraction
Unattractive
Availability
Only a fishermen’s path; the lake has partially become paludified.
Infrastructure, management, facilities
None
Local info
None
Capacity
0 – 9
Publicity
Unknown
Legal Status
Private
Comments
The GPS indicators read by a camera for the central part of the lake. It may be of interest only to fishermen and specialists.
