Kauhajoki (literally “Scoop River”) is a town and municipality of Finland. The city is unilingually Finnish.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region. The population of Kauhajoki is 13,009 and the municipality covers an area of 1,299.10 km2 (501.59 sq mi) of which 16.46 km2 (6.36 sq mi) is inland water. The population density is 10.01/km2 (25.9/sq mi).
Culture
Events
In the spring of 2008, the first cultural week called Kauhajoki Kriuhnaasut was held in the locality. During the first Culture Week, 75 events took place, attracting a total of 4,880 visitors. The Kauhajoki Kriuhnaasut continued in 2009. A week before Midsummer, a Kauhajoki Cup youth football tournament is held in Kauhajoki , which is attended by about a hundred teams each year, some from outside Finland.
Every Midsummer since 1987, a music festival called Nummirock has been held on the shores of Lake Nummijärvi in Kauhajoki . Today, Nummirock is focused on heavy rock music . The festivals have featured Iron Maiden , Motörhead , Pantera , Ramones , Scorpions and Slayer . In the center of the August Kauhajoen arranged Bluesrupiama called blues , rhythm and blues , soul , funk anda jazz- focused music festival. For example, Erja Lyytinen and Matti Oiling have performed at festivals .
In the autumn Hames-Havunen the yard has since 1991 organized Food Fair . During the food fair, an event called Syöminkie Night will be held on Topeeka, Kauhajoki’s main street. At the same time as the Food Fair, a Fair Cup football tournament has been held in Kauhajoki since 1997.
Other events include the spring and summer markets and the SambaCross & Carnivals event, which includes motorsport and samba events .
Attractions
- Lauhanvuori National Park
- Kauhaneva – Pohjankangas National Park
- Hämes-Havunen Ostrobothnian manor
- Sanssi School and its Parliamentary Hall Museum
- Hyypänjoki Valley
- Traditional house for veterans
- Kauhajoki Homeland Museum
- Sanssinkartano
- Katikankanyjoni natural formation
- Lapinkaivo
- Ant Nature Tourist Center
- Näsiänmäki grove , grove to be protected according to the Western Finland Environment Institute
- Mustaisjärvi – Mustaisneva springs , Katikanluoma , upper Kauhajoki , Sotkanluoma and Isoluoma , according to the Western Finland Environment Institute , valuable small waters.
- Natura 2000 sites
- Created by Karvia
- The rapids of the Karvianjoki river
- Kauhaneva — Pohjankangas
- Decaying
- Black island
- Iso Kaivoneva
- Big Koihnanneva
- Ylimysjärvi
- Lapväärtinjoki Valley
Food
Kauhajoki officer for food named in the 1980s sinsalla ie rosolli and carbon herrings .
Nature
On the border of the Kauhajoki and Isojoki rivers is Lauhanvuori , one of the highest points in Western Finland , which rises 231 meters above sea level. However, the highest point of Lauhanvuori is on the Isojoki side, a few tens of meters from the Kauhajoki border.
Education
Of the primary schools operating in Kauhajoki , Lustila School, Päntäne School, Yrjänäinen School and Äijö School provide classes for grades 1–4. Aro School, Hyypä School, Kainasto School, Koko School, Luomankylä School, Nummijärvi School, Pukkila School, Sahankylä School and Sanssi School provide instruction for grades 1–6. Kauhajoki Co-educational School provides classes for grades 7-9 and Aninkoulu for grades 1-9. At present , the schools in Nummijärv, Sanssi, Lustila and Yrjänäinen have been closed down and the pupils of those schools have been transferred to the Kauhajoki school center, which was completed in 2010 and has about 460 primary school students. The school center is located in the immediate vicinity of Kauhajoki High School, a vocational school and a secondary school. It has also been decided to close the Sahankylä school from autumn 2014. One option was to reopen the Lustila school and relocate the pupils to the premises of the building to be reopened, but that proposal did not receive sufficient support and from Sahankylä the pupils will also be transported to the school center.
There is also a high school in Kauhajoki , one of the 90 folk high schools in Finland, ie the Kauhajoki Evangelical College and the Kauhajoki Citizens‘ College .
