Southern Oulu region Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
About Southern Oulu region
It's quite fair to say this area is off the beaten path. Few visit these hoods other than by stopping athighway 4gas stations while passing by. In general the landscape is very flat and heavily affected by agriculture and forestry. The views consist of forests and open fields. To the east there are large bogs, some lakes and – eventually – even hills. There are several rivers crossing but as elsewhere in Ostrobothnia lakes are scarce. The region probably got its first permanent residents during the 1400s but in Merijärvi there is the northernmost known grave from the Neolithic Corded Ware Culture. During the Age of Sail, production and trading of pine-derived tar was a major source of income and there are hundreds of old tar kilns abandoned in these forests. Despite having some industry th
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