() is a lake in southwestern

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

. The lake is located mostly in the

Pirkanmaa Pirkanmaa (; ; ), also known as ''Tampere Region'' in government documents, is a region of Finland. It borders the regions of Satakunta, South Ostrobothnia, Central Finland, Päijät-Häme, Kanta-Häme and Southwest Finland. Most of the wate ...

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at an elevation of . Längelmävesi is within the municipalities of

Jämsä Jämsä () is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Central Finland region, about southwest of Jyväskylä. The municipality has a population of (), which makes it the second most populous town of the Central Finland after ...

(formerly

Längelmäki Längelmäki is a former municipality of Finland. Längelmäki was divided in 2007 between Jämsä and Orivesi. Längelmäki is situated by the lake Längelmävesi, from which it has got also its name. The administrative center of Längelmäki ...

Kangasala is a town in Finland, located in the Pirkanmaa region. It lies to the east of the regional capital, Tampere. The population of Kangasala is approximately , while the Tampere metropolitan area, metropolitan area has a population of approximat ...

(formerly Sahalahti),

Kuhmalahti Kuhmalahti (, also ) is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with the municipality of Kangasala on January 1, 2011. It was located in the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality had a population of 1,047 (31 October 2010) and covered ...

, and

Orivesi Orivesi () is a town in Finland, located in the Pirkanmaa region. It lies to the northeast of the regional capital, Tampere. The population of Orivesi is approximately , while the Tampere metropolitan area, metropolitan area has a population of ...

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Geography

Längelmävesi lake is part of the Kokemäenjoki

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...

(watershed). It is one of a chain of lakes () that includes Längelmävesi, Vesijärvi, Roine, Pälkänevesi, and Mallasvesi lakes. This chain of lakes drains into the

Vanajavesi Vanajavesi is a large lake in southern Finland, in the provinces of Pirkanmaa and Kanta-Häme. It is part of the Kokemäenjoki basin. The lake gathers waters from a wide area in the regions of Pirkanmaa, Tavastia Proper and parts of the Päij� ...

Valkeakoski Valkeakoski (; lit. "white rapids") is a town and municipalities of Finland, municipality in Finland. It is located south of Tampere, north of Hämeenlinna and north of Helsinki in the Pirkanmaa regions of Finland, region. The municipality has ...

. From the southeast, another chain of lakes (), consisting of Lummene, Kuohijärvi, Kukkia, Iso-Roine,

Hauhonselkä Hauhonselkä is a lake in Finland. It is part of a chain of lakes that begins from the lakes Lummene and Vesijako at the drainage divide between the Kokemäenjoki and Kymijoki basins and flows westwards from there through the lakes Kuohijärvi, K ...

, and

Ilmoilanselkä Ilmoilanselkä is a lake in Finland. It is part of a chain of lakes that begins from the lakes Lummene and Vesijako at the drainage divide between the Kokemäenjoki and Kymijoki basins, flows westwards from there through the lakes Kuohijärvi, Ku ...

lakes joins into the Vanajavesi. In Finnish, the former chain of lakes is called and the latter as it runs through the former municipality of

Hauho Hauho is a former municipality of Finland. It was situated in the province of Southern Finland and is today a part of the region of Tavastia Proper (Kanta-Häme / Egentliga Tavastland). Hauho was amalgamated with the municipality of Hämeenlinna ...

In culture

Finnish culture The culture of Finland combines indigenous heritage, as represented for example by the country's Languages of Finland, national languages Finnish language, Finnish (a Uralic languages, Uralic language) and Swedish language, Swedish (a Germanic ...

, Längelmävesi and Roine lakes are well known — as they are mentioned in the famous poem "En sommardag i Kangasala" () by Zachris Topelius and have thus became part of Finnish national landscape imagery.

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* Kokemäenjoki basin Landforms of Pirkanmaa Lakes of Kangasala {{Finland-geo-stub

Geography

In culture

See also

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