Kõrvemaa, or the Middle-Estonian Plain

3130 km2

 

Kõrvemaa landscape is rich in bogs
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Extends from the North-Estonian Coastal Lowland to Soomaa

The meaning of „kõrb, kõrve": uninhabited primeval forest

Rich in marginal formations

Extensively paludified plain (plateau), intersected by esker systems, kame fields and small drumlins

On the foot of the Pandivere upland - drumlin fields

In North Kõrvemaa clear-water lakes between esker ridges - remnants of melted ancient glaciers under moraine cover (thermokarst), extensive forested regions

South Kõrvemaa is poor of lakes and forests but rich in mires

Water reservoirs of Paunküla and Soodla

Eastern part more populated: Paide, Türi

Agricultural fringe areas in the east: Väätsa, Särevere

In the northern and central parts big recreational areas: Palmse, Viitna, Aegviidu

Nature Protection Area of North Kõrvemaa - to protect heath forests, mires and extensive paludified forested areas and man-made Jussi plain, resembling tundra communities

Kõrvemaa Landscape Protection Area to protect virgin mire areas, kame fields, esker systems and drumlin fields; the biggest mire protected - the Kakerdaja mire (ab 1000 ha)