photo: Perti Volanen / Vastavalo
postmarked in 2010 with a Suomi Finland Torronsuo National Park stamp with almost the same image
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Torronsuo National Park is a national park in the Tavastia Proper region of Finland. Even before its declaration as a national park in 1990, the near-natural state swamp area was a protected area. Its area is 25.5 square kilometres (9.85 sq mi).
The park area is a typical ombrotrophic (cloud-fed, aka rain not river) raised bog. The turf layer is one of the thickest measured among Finnish bogs, locally extending to 12 metres (39 ft).
Torronsuo is valuable for its birdlife and butterfly species. Roughly a hundred species nest in the area.
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