Karijoki

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Karijoki
Karijoki

Karijoki (Bötom in Swedish) is a municipality of Finland.

It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of 1,686 (2003) and covers an area of 186.58 km² of which 0.53 km² is water. The population density is 9.0 inhabitants per km².

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

A neanderthal cave, the Wolf cave, was found in the Pyhävuori mountains in Karijoki in 1997.


Coordinates: 62°18′25″N, 21°42′25″E