Orivesi, Pirkanmaa Region, Finland

🇫🇮 Orivesi is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is part of the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality covers an area of 960.09 square km (370.69 sq mi) of which 160.53 km² (61.98 sq mi) is water. The population density is 11.14 inhabitants per square kilometre (28.9/sq mi). The municipality official language is monolingually Finnish.

Orivesi was founded in 1869. It was municipality until 1986 when it became a city of Finland. The municipality of Eräjärvi was consolidated with Orivesi in 1973. A part of the municipality of Längelmäki was consolidated with Orivesi in 2007. Today, neighbouring municipalities are Juupajoki, Jämsä, Kangasala, Kuhmoinen, Ruovesi and Tampere. The distance from Orivesi to Tampere is 43 km (27 mi). The town centre of Orivesi is located by the Lake Längelmävesi.

Orivesi was the location of the Oriveden Opisto art school which moved to Tampere in 2018.

Geography Orivesi has more than 350 lakes. The landscape of Orivesi is mostly dominated by Lake Längelmävesi, into which most of the area's water basis fall. The north-eastern end of Kangasala's Lake Vesijärvi also extends to the Orivesi area. Some of the lakes in the western part of Orivesi flow into Lake Näsijärvi. The largest ridges in the town, which extend more than 200 meters above sea level, are located in the north-west near the borders of Tampere and Ruovesi. The average altitude of the terrain is 100–150 meters.

There is a gold mine opened in 1990 in Orivesi, from which more than 15 tons of gold have been mined.

Food In the 1980s, blood sausage and mustikkapöperö were named Orivesi's traditional parish dishes.

Sport Orivesi is home to the Oriveden Fortuna, an ice hockey club founded in 1968, which trains in the Orivesi Ice Rink. Orivesi also has a football club, Oriveden Tuisku.