Open bogs and wetlands on the Suomenselkä watershed in western Finland
The park is built around the 16.3-square-kilometre Kauhaneva bog, with smaller swamp areas scattered around it. It sits on porphyric granite bedrock in the south-western part of the Suomenselkä watershed area, and its wetlands are listed under the Ramsar Convention.
1KauhanevaThe park's main bog, covering 16.3 square kilometres, with the highest ground at 170 to 177 metres.2PohjankangasThe area that gives the park its second name, alongside the bogs.
Finland · South Ostrobothnia and SatakuntaEst. 1981Size 67 km²Protected area category: IUCN II