🌊 Kitkajärvi

Finland · Europe · 240 m · 66.13°N, 28.53°E

Lake Kitkajärvi is a rather large lake of Finland. It is situated partly in Posio in Lapland region and partly in Kuusamo municipality in Northern Ostrobothnia region, and belongs to the Koutajoki main catchment area. The southern part of the lake is called Yli-Kitka and northern part is called Ala-Kitka. Kitkajärvi is 14th biggest lake in Finland. It is also the biggest unregulated lake, because there are no power stations on its outflow. Rather big part of the lake is protected in the Natura 2000 protection program. The water in the lake is very clean. There is a route around the lake for paddlers.

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Quick facts

Country	Finland
Continent / region	Europe
Surface elevation	240 m above sea level
Coordinates (approx.)	66.13°N, 28.53°E · view on map

Kitkajärvi sits at 240 m in Finland, in Europe. The full story of this lake is described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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Surface elevation from Wikidata. Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.