Cesis District Council

Cesis is located in the North-East part of Latvia, 90 km from Riga. In geographical terms it is one of the biggest districts in Latvia and it has a population of 57 228 (2006), with 18 504 residing in the City of Cesis. Cesis District is one of the most active regions in Latvia in means of entrepreneurship with more than 4500 registered companies (2005). A great deal of these are farms and other agricultural and forestal enterprises, but there are also other manifacturing and alimentary companies and even a couple of breweries. Even though agriculture continues to be an important part of the district´s economy, tourism is a rapidly growing sector.