Lauhanvuori-Nationalpark

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The Lauhanvuori National Park (Finnish Lauhanvuoren kansallispuisto ) is a 1982 equipped National Park in the west of Finland.

The 53 km ² national park located on the territory of the municipalities Kauhajoki, Isojoki and Honkajoki in the countryside South Ostrobothnia. It includes forest and wetlands in the undulating hills of Suomenselkä moraines.

The eponymous hill Lauhanvuori, with 231 m also the highest peak of the park, however, is not a moraine, but a sandstone rock, which makes him a special geological features in dominated mainly by igneous rocks and Moränenaufschüttungen relief Finland. Unlike the surrounding moraines he was not covered by the Ancylus Lake, but excelled as an island from the glacial melt water floods. Old shorelines leave today to broad bands on the slopes of the summit, where the bedrock outcrops, and gravel beds to make. Especially on the western slope, there are also sand dunes. In the swampy lowlands partly dominated by pine trees, at altitudes are more significant spruce and birch.

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