Kälviä

Kälviä [ Kälviä ] (Swedish Kelviå ) is a former municipality in the Finnish countryside Central Ostrobothnia and now part of the city of Kokkola.

Kälviä is 18 kilometers east of the center of Kokkola slightly inland from the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia. In addition to the same church belonged to the village community Kälviä the villages Hilli, Honkimaa, Jatkojoki, Jokikylä, Karhulahti, Kleemola, Miekkoja, Nissi, Passoja, Peitso, Peltokorpi, Porkola, Riippa, Rimpilä, Rita, Ruotsalo, Vuolle and Välikylä. The area of ​​the municipality was 685.1 km ², its population stood at 4,594.

Kälviä was released in 1639 as an independent parish from Kokkola. Originally, it also included Ullava, the 1904 started his own. The beginning of 2009 Kälviä was incorporated along with Lohtaja and Ullava into town Kokkola.

The Church of Kälviä is a wooden cruciform church dates back to the year 1905.