Ķekava Municipality
Municipality of Latvia
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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.
Ķekava Municipality
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| Country |  Latvia |
| Formed | 2009 |
| Reformed | 2021 |
| Centre | Ķekava |
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| Government | |
| • Council Chair | Viktorija Baire (Vienotība) |
| Area | |
• Total | 444.26 km2 (171.53 sq mi) |
| • Land | 424.65 km2 (163.96 sq mi) |
| Population (2025)[2] | |
• Total | 31,273 |
| • Density | 73.644/km2 (190.74/sq mi) |
| Website | www |
On 1 July 2021, Ķekava Municipality was enlarged when the former Baldone Municipality was merged into it.[3] The territory of Ķekava Municipality is defined by Latvian law as belonging partly of the region of Vidzeme and partly to Semigallia.[4]
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[5]
