Puula
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Puula (or Puulavesi) is a lake in the Kymi River area in the Finnish municipalities of Hirvensalmi, Kangasniemi and Mikkeli. Puula is above sea level, with a surface area of . It is deep at its deepest point, located near Porttisalmi at Simpiänselkä, which is the biggest open area of the lake. Two big lakes Suontee and Puula were one lake until year 1854, when the water level was lowered 2.5 meters. This brought geological stacks above the surface, which are formed by water.
Key facts
- Body of water.name
- Puula
- Body of water.image
- Lake_Puulavesi.jpg
- Body of water.caption
- Puula during a summer evening
- Body of water.image_bathymetry
- Puula(vesi).png
- Body of water.location
- Southern Savonia, Finland
- Body of water.pushpin_map
- Finland
- Body of water.basin_countries
- Finland
- Body of water.cities
- Hirvensalmi, Kangasniemi
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Joutsa
- Area
- 330.76398
- Elevation
- 94.7
- Image
- Vuojaselkä.JPG
- Length
- 50
- Perimeter
- 1776.73
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- Commons category
- Lake Puula
- vertical depth
- 60
- basin country
- Finland
- volume as quantity
- 3059000000
- native label
- Puulavesi
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
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Puula (or Puulavesi) is a lake in the Kymi River area in the Finnish municipalities of Hirvensalmi, Kangasniemi and Mikkeli. Puula is above sea level, with a surface area of . It is deep at its deepest point, located near Porttisalmi at Simpiänselkä, which is the biggest open area of the lake. Two big lakes Suontee and Puula were one lake until year 1854, when the water level was lowered 2.5 meters. This brought geological stacks above the surface, which are formed by water.
Water from lake Puula runs down to Vahvajärvi through Kissakoski Canal.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Puula” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations