The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 53,275 values from 3 gauges within it. Discharge is a property of a gauge and its reach, not of this drainage area, so this page reports the network and its records rather than a single figure.

3

Gauges

53,275

Values held

1911–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Kuivajoki drainage basin

3 monitoring points, positioned as the publisher records them.

How low, how high and how variable this gauge runs

A hydrograph says what happened; these say how often. Read off Kuivaniemi's whole daily record between 1911 and 1980, they describe the shape of the record rather than any day in it — and they belong to this gauge and its reach, not to this drainage area.

1.400 m³/s

Q95 low flow

6.600 m³/s

Q50 median flow

42.000 m³/s

Q10 high flow

Largest day of each water year at Kuivaniemi

The highest daily mean discharge in each October-to-September water year, 1911–1978.

These are the largest daily means, not flood peaks. A peak lasting hours is averaged across a whole day here, so the true instantaneous maximum on the same day was higher — sometimes far higher on a fast-responding catchment. Flood frequency work needs a publisher's own instantaneous series; Hydrionis holds one for 2,236 American gauges and not for this one, so the two are never drawn together. A water year the gauge did not substantially cover produces no value at all rather than a low one.

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Underlying data
Period	Kuivaniemi (m³/s)
1911	233
1912	233
1913	148
1914	122
1915	188
1916	203
1917	150
1918	138
1919	203
1920	206
1921	174
1922	257
1923	159
1924	117
1925	131
1926	174
1927	131
1928	248
1929	280
1930	280
1931	156
1932	175
1933	248
1934	248
1935	213
1936	172
1937	180
1938	54.0
1939	218
1940	43.0
1941	131
1942	206
1943	233
1944	145
1945	131
1946	241
1947	152
1948	193
1949	190
1950	160
1951	198
1952	208
1953	154
1954	255
1955	222
1956	223
1957	136
1958	292
1959	318
1960	241
1961	141
1962	156
1963	172
1970	315
1971	223
1972	252
1973	200
1974	204
1975	184
1976	324
1977	167
1978	211

The longest record here

Mean river flow at Kuivaniemi

Annual means of the daily record, 1911–1979. One gauge, not this drainage area.

Annual means computed by Hydrionis from the published daily record, drawn only for years with at least 300 days held. They summarise this gauge's own record and say nothing about any other watercourse in this area.

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Underlying data
Period	Kuivaniemi (m³/s)
1911	15.6
1912	19.5
1913	14.9
1914	16.0
1915	12.9
1916	13.3
1917	21.8
1918	14.1
1919	15.1
1920	21.4
1921	20.7
1922	14.1
1923	20.2
1924	23.0
1925	15.1
1926	16.2
1927	19.9
1928	18.3
1929	23.9
1930	19.7
1931	20.7
1932	22.5
1933	17.2
1934	16.8
1935	24.8
1936	17.2
1937	13.7
1938	18.6
1939	8.71
1940	10.1
1941	6.52
1942	16.2
1943	23.3
1944	16.5
1945	15.8
1946	10.8
1947	12.7
1948	23.8
1949	30.8
1950	17.6
1951	17.7
1952	20.9
1953	23.0
1954	26.4
1955	19.1
1956	11.7
1957	20.9
1958	15.8
1959	12.1
1960	13.1
1961	24.6
1962	22.1
1963	13.1
1964	14.8
1970	13.5
1971	17.4
1972	17.4
1973	17.2
1974	18.1
1975	18.7
1976	13.3
1977	20.4
1978	9.35
1979	16.7

Every gauge Hydrionis holds within this area

Gauges within the Kuivajoki and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
Kuivaniemi	mean river flow	23,394	1911–1980
Ravaska	mean river flow	22,495	1965–2026
Kivijoki	mean river flow	7,386	2005–2026

How these gauges were attached to this water

Assigned by the publisher to a numbered basin Every gauge here is assigned to this drainage area by its own publisher, which issues the area an official code — 63. A drainage area is not a river: it contains the tributaries as well as the main channel, and a gauge in it may be on any of them.

What each gauge’s link to this water rests on
Gauge	Evidence	Established
Kuivaniemi	Stated by the publisher on the record this gauge’s observations came from.	With the observations
Ravaska	Stated by the publisher on the record this gauge’s observations came from.	With the observations
Kivijoki	Stated by the publisher on the record this gauge’s observations came from.	With the observations

What this record holds

Hydrionis decides which waters get a page, and which of those are offered to search, from what is actually held rather than from how the page reads. Five signals are counted; this record has 3 of them, which makes it a full profile.

Information-gain signals held for this water body
Signal	Held	Counts
Gauges holding a real record	3	yes, 3 or more
Years spanned	116	yes, 20 or more
Values held	53,275	yes, 1000 or more
Distinct measurements	1	no
Publishers measuring it	1	no
Official identifiers	1	recorded, not counted

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Attribution and citation

Attribution you are required to give

These are conditions of the licences the underlying data is published under. They are obligations to the publishers, not to Hydrionis, and they apply to you directly whether or not you mention Hydrionis at all.

Contains data from the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Suomen ympäristökeskus (Finnish Environment Institute) — CC BY 4.0 (licence text)

Suggested citation for Hydrionis

Hydrionis (2026), Kuivajoki gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/finland-kuivajoki/

Cite Hydrionis where you rely on the compilation, the normalisation, the eligibility judgements or a chart. Where you use an unmodified published value, the publisher’s attribution is the one that is required; crediting Hydrionis as well is welcome and is not something Hydrionis can require of you.

Recommended, not required. Hydrionis does not claim rights over unmodified public data it relayed, and doing arithmetic on somebody else’s measurements does not make them Hydrionis’s. Cite the version and the access date: the Kuivajoki gauge records changes as publishers release and as methods are revised, and a citation without both cannot be checked later. Full guidance is on cite and reuse.

Where these figures come from

MeasuredHigh confidence1980-01-18

Source: Syke — Hydrologiarajapinta — Finnish national hydrological archive, 6300200. Licence: Open — attribution required (attribution required).

Method: Daily discharge exactly as the Finnish Environment Institute publishes it. Syke computes the daily value from its own measurement and rating curves; Hydrionis does not recompute it, because a mean derived from whatever sub-daily data happens to be exposed would be a different statistic under the same name. Values Syke flags as possibly erroneous are not stored.

Station in the Kuivajoki main drainage basin, Kuivajoen suualue sub-basin. Discharge is a property of this gauge and this reach, not of the river as a whole.

Retrieved 1 October 2026.