Muhos is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Oulu half an hour's drive on route 22 from the city of Oulu, the capital of Northern Finland, and is part of the Northern Ostrobothniaregion. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is. The river Oulujoki flows through the town and its countryside with the wide open plains of Pohjanmaa on the south side of the river and the forested hills of Kainuu on the northern side. Located in Muhos is the Pyhäkoski hydro-electric power plant which was commissioned in 1949 and has the highest fall in Finland. The power station has been designed by renowned Finnish architect Aarne Ervi.
The town has a culture centre which consists of the town library and space for various cultural activities which can be rented for a nominal fee. The culture centre also has a movie theater.
Languages
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Transport
Road
The Finnish national road 22 between Oulu and Kajaani passes through the municipal center. There are several daily local bus connections to Oulu, and several long-distance connections to Kajaani and points east.
Rail
line runs through the municipal center. There are eight daily passenger trains, four each way, serving the community at Muhos railway station. The trains are operated by the national railway operator, VR Group.
The members of the parliament elected from Muhos have been Pirkko Mattila, Ester Häikiö and Aaro Kauppi and Yrjö Kesti. Juhana Petter Valkola was a peasant deputy during the diet session 1877–1878. During the great depression of the 1930s Muhos was one of the municipalities where the deficiency movements started to organise as critique to the cabibet parties. After the municipal elections of the year 1933, the biggest political group in the municipal council of Muhos was Muhoksen pulatoimikunta which was an elemental part of the movement in the southern regions of Oulu. In 1933 they had seven members of the council. In the northern Finland as the deficit movement was based on the small peasants' and was a critique for the Agrarian League and Kyösti Kallio, but in some cases it was a critique to the Social Democratic Party of Finland as well. Some parts of the deficiency movement was financed moderately by the Communist Party of Finland as its activities were forbidden by law in to the end of the continuation war. In the 1930s the Communistic movement of Finland tried to go on its work in the Social Democratic organisations, which were not banned in Finland and less also in the deficiency movement. The deficiency movements demanded the state take more effective measures to help the small peasants to avoid the compulsory auctions of the debt-driven small farms. Many of the farmsteads were bought in the auctions by the state and later returned to their former owners.
