Ķekava Municipality Explained

Ķekava Municipality
Native Name:	Ķekavas novads
Native Name Lang:	lv
Settlement Type:	Municipality
Subdivision Type:	Country
Established Title:	Formed
Established Date:	2009
Established Title2:	Reformed
Established Date2:	2021
Seat Type:	Centre
Seat:	Ķekava
Leader Title:	Council Chair
Leader Name:	Juris Žilko (LA/Izaugsme)
Population Density Km2:	auto
Postal Code Type:	Postal code
Parts Type:	Subdivisions
P1:	Baloži Baldone Baldone Parish Daugmale Parish Ķekava Ķekava Parish

Ķekava Municipality (Latvian: Ķekavas novads) is a municipality in Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Baloži town, Daugmale Parish and Ķekava Parish, the administrative centre being Ķekava.

On 1 July 2021, Ķekava Municipality was enlarged when the former Baldone Municipality was merged into it.^[1] The territory of Ķekava Municipality is defined by Latvian law as belonging partly of the region of Vidzeme and partly to Semigallia.^[2]

Sightseeing

Local History Museum of Ķekava
Museum of Daugmale elementary school
Pines of Katlakalns
Ostvald's canal
Ķekava (Dole) Lutheran Church
Lutheran church in Odukalns
Katlakalns Church
Dole Recreation center
Ķekava primary school
Manor house of Rāmava
Memorial stone to honor repressed people from the region
E. Ostwald's Memorial stone
Gravestones of Garlieb Merkel and Johann Heinrich Baumann in Katlakalns cemetery
Memorial stone for Roberts Mūrnieks
Memorial stone "Refugee road"
Jāņi Hill – sacred hill of ancestors
Death Island
World War I cemetery at Truseļi
Katlakalns World War I cemetery
Baloži Frog
Fountain in Baloži
Titurga lake
Daugmale castle mound
Mūlkalns^[3]