Kauguri, Latvia agency. It is also home to the football club FK Jūrmala, playing in the Virsliga. Kauguri bathing area received the National Bathing Area Quality Certificate acknowledging it conformity with several International Blue Flag Certification criteria. It takes about 40 minutes to get to Kauguri from Riga (the capital city of Latvia) by car, about 50 minutes by train and about an hour by bus. Kauguri, Latvia Kauguri is a residential area in the western part of Jūrmala, a city in Latvia. It is estimated that the population is approximately one-half of Jūrmala's population, so it is more than 20,000. As
History of Latvia couple of months was the virtual capital of Latvians. Iskolat moved to ban the Provisional Council in December, 1917. On January 5, 1918, during the only meeting of democratically elected Constituent Assembly of Russia, which was abolished by Bolsheviks, Latvian deputy Jānis Goldmanis, the initiator in 1915 of creation of Latvian Riflemen units, read a declaration of separation of Latvia from Russia. On its second meeting, which was held in Petrograd, the Latvian National Council on January 30, 1918 declared that Latvia should be an independent, democratic republic, uniting Latvian regions Kurzeme (which includes Zemgale), Vidzeme and Latgale. On March