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{{for|the village in Estonia|Kaavi, Estonia}}
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Revision as of 20:21, 15 March 2019

For the village in Estonia, see Kaavi, Estonia.

Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality Kaavi is a municipality of Finland.

It is located in the

Northern Savonia region. Kaavi is also a part of historical Karelia. The municipality has a population of Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality/population count (Error: Invalid time.)[1] and covers an area of [convert: invalid number] of which [convert: invalid number] is water.[2] The population density is [convert: invalid number]. There is 60 km to Kuopio and 90 km to Joensuu. Neighbouring municipalities are Kuopio, Juuka, Outokumpu, Polvijärvi and Tuusniemi
.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Origin of the name

In language of

Sami (also spelled Sámi or Saami)
the word kaavi means a boat harbour.

Nature

Lakes and rivers

There is 261 lakes, example Rikkavesi, Kaavinjärvi, Saarijärvi, Rauvanjärvi and Sivakkajärvi. Rivers, example Rauvanjoki, Sivakkajoki, Syrjäjoki and Vaikkojoki.

Sivakkajoki

Swamps

86 swamps covers about 8% about municipalitys area. Swamps shape is typically small, narrow and broken because those have formed betveen hills.

Bedrock

At Kaavi's bedrock have been founded many minerals, example copper, zinc and cobalt.

The Finnish-Australian mining company Malmikaivos Oy found diamonds from bedrock of Kaavi in 1990's.[3] One of the stones from the kimberilite of Kaavi (Lahtojoki deposit) has record high amount of diamonds.[4]

Under planning is to establish first diamondmine in Europe.

Sights and activities

Telkkämäki Heritage Farm

Twin towns

People

  • Harri Hakkarainen, javelin thrower
  • Isto Hiltunen, musician
  • Matti Koivunen, ice hockey player
  • Seppo Kononen, journalist, had award 2011 (
    Suomen kuvalehti
    )
  • Hugo Niskanen, runner
  • Mira Salo, Miss Finland

References

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference population_count was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference total_area was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Diamond rush expected in Finnish Karelia
  4. ^ Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, 14 February 2006
  5. ^ Suomen kuntien ystävyyskunnat Virossa

Further reading

Koillis-Savo (newspaper)

External links

Media related to Kaavi at Wikimedia Commons

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