Kemijoki
Kemijoki | ||
The Kemijoki in Rovaniemi |
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Data | ||
Water code | FI : 65 | |
location | Lapland ( Finland ) | |
River system | Kemijoki | |
source |
Kemihaara (confluence of Naltiohaara , Keskihaara and Kemihaara ) near Savukoski 67 ° 57 ′ 46 ″ N , 28 ° 57 ′ 9 ″ E |
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Source height | 230 m | |
muzzle | near Kemi in the Bottenwiek , Baltic Sea Coordinates: 65 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ N , 24 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E 65 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ N , 24 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E |
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Mouth height | 0 m | |
Height difference | 230 m | |
Bottom slope | 0.42 ‰ | |
length | 550 km | |
Catchment area | 51,127.3 km² | |
Drain |
MQ |
556 m³ / s |
Left tributaries | Tenniöjoki , Vuotos | |
Right tributaries | Kitinen , Ounasjoki , Raudanjoki | |
Flowing lakes | Kemijärvi | |
Big cities | Kemijärvi , Rovaniemi , Kemi |
The Kemijoki [ ˈkɛmijɔki ] is the longest river in Finland at 550 kilometers . It flows through the Finnish part of Lapland and flows into the Baltic Sea .
The Kemijoki begins at the Kemihaara confluence of the three source rivers Naltiohaara , Keskihaara and Kemihaara in the municipality of Savukoski in Eastern Lapland . From there it flows in a south-westerly direction through the Lapland landscape, receiving several tributaries. At Savukoski the Tenniöjoki flows into the Kemijoki. At Pelkosenniemi , the Kemijoki takes on the Vuotos and the Kitinen , who recently united with the Luiro . In the town of Kemijärvi, the river flows through Lake Kemijärvi . At the confluence of the Kemijoki and its largest tributary, the Ounasjoki , lies the Lappish provincial capital of Rovaniemi . At the port city of Kemi , the Kemijoki flows into the Bottenwiek , the northernmost part of the Gulf of Bothnia . The size of the catchment area is 51,127 square kilometers and thus covers most of Finnish Lapland. A smaller part of the catchment area is on the Russian and Norwegian side. Especially on its lower reaches, the Kemijoki is very wide and partly widened like a lake. The mean flow rate at the river mouth is 556 m³ / s.
After the end of the Second World War , the previously natural Kemijoki was dammed for the purposes of hydropower . The first hydropower plant on Kemijoki was commissioned near Isohaara in 1948 . Meanwhile, a total of 18 power plants are distributed along the river, 16 of which belong to Kemijoki Oy , which was founded in 1954 . 34.5% of the energy produced by hydropower plants in Finland comes from these power plants, which in 2003 had a total output of 4.3 TWh . The Luiro and Kitinen tributaries to the Lokka and Porttipahta reservoirs were dammed in order to be able to regulate the amount of water for hydropower purposes . Before the construction of the hydropower plants, the Kemijoki was an extremely rich river; especially the salmon appeared in large schools.
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