Agluona (Akmenė)
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The Agluona is a river of
Akmenė district municipality Akmenė () is a city in northern Lithuania. Following the discovery of large reserves of limestone and clay in the region, in 1947 construction work began on one of the largest cement production complexes in the Baltic States. Nearby, a new town ...
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Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...
. It flows for 23.4 kilometres and has a basin area of 188 km². It is a left tributary of the Vadakstis river (the
Venta River The Venta (Latvian pronunciation , Lithuanian , , , Livonian ''Vǟnta joug'') is a river in north-western Lithuania and western Latvia. Its source is near Kuršėnai in the Lithuanian Šiauliai County. It flows into the Baltic Sea at Vents ...
basin). The Agluona starts near Stipirkiai village and flows north-westwards. It meets the Vadakstis near Kesiai village, by the Latvian border. By the Agluona, lies the village of Kivyliai where the Kivyliai Reservoir is located (area ). The name ''Agluona'' comes from ' spruce tree'.


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Rivers of Lithuania Akmenė District Municipality Venta River basin {{Lithuania-river-stub