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16-547: Kesennuma is in the far northeastern corner of Miyagi Prefecture. The city wraps around the western part of Kesennuma Bay and also includes the island of Ōshima. Its deeply indented rias coastline forms the southern boundary of the Sanriku Fukkō National Park , which stretches north to Aomori Prefecture . The city borders Hirota Bay, Kesennuma Bay, and the Pacific Ocean to the east and Minamisanriku, Miyagi to

32-408: A BRT system) [REDACTED] East Japan Railway Company (JR East) - Ōfunato Line (operations suspended indefinitely and replaced by a BRT system) [REDACTED] National Route 45 [REDACTED] National Route 284 [REDACTED] National Route 346 Ria A ria ( / ˈ r iː ə / ; Galician : ría , feminine noun derived from río , river)

48-600: A humid climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ) characterized by mild summers and cold winters. The average annual temperature in Kesennuma is 11.2 °C (52.2 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,375.8 mm (54.17 in) with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 22.9 °C (73.2 °F), and lowest in January, at around 0.3 °C (32.5 °F). Its record high

64-540: A fishing boat - the Kyotoku Maru No 18 - which was swept inland by a giant wave during the 2011 tsunami . There had been plans to preserve the boat as a monument, as it had become a symbol of the tsunami. In 2014, Kesennuma was designated as Japan's first " slow town ". Kesennuma has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 24 members. Kessenuma, together with Motoyoshi District contributes three seats to

80-550: Is 36.0 °C (96.8 °F), reached on 15 August 1994, and its record low is −12.6 °C (9.3 °F), reached on 17 February 1980. Per Japanese census data, the population of Kesennuma has declined over the past 40 years. The area of present-day Kesennuma was part of ancient Mutsu Province and has been settled since at least the Jōmon period by the Emishi people, as evidenced by numerous shell middens found in coastal areas. During

96-665: Is a coastal inlet formed by the partial submergence of an unglaciated river valley . It is a drowned river valley that remains open to the sea. Typically rias have a dendritic , treelike outline although they can be straight and without significant branches. This pattern is inherited from the dendritic drainage pattern of the flooded river valley. The drowning of river valleys along a stretch of coast and formation of rias results in an extremely irregular and indented coastline. Often, there are naturally occurring islands, which are summits of partly submerged, pre-existing hill peaks. (Islands may also be artificial, such as those constructed for

112-528: The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel .) A ria coast is a coastline having several parallel rias separated by prominent ridges, extending a distance inland. The sea level change that caused the submergence of a river valley may be either eustatic (where global sea levels rise), or isostatic (where the local land sinks). The result is often a very large estuary at the mouth of a relatively insignificant river (or else sediments would quickly fill

128-565: The 21st century, however, the preferred usage of ria by geologists and geomorphologists is to refer solely to drowned unglaciated river valleys. It therefore excludes fjords by definition, since fjords are products of glaciation. The funnel-like shape of rias can amplify the effects of tsunamis , as demonstrated in the seismicity of the Sanriku coast , most recently in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami . House of Representatives of Japan Too Many Requests If you report this error to

144-509: The Miyagi Prefectural legislature. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Miyagi 6th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Kesennuma relies on tourism and commercial fishing , the latter being what the city is known for, especially its shark , tuna , pacific saury and skipjack tuna production, keeping the fishing port very active. Prior to the 2011 disaster,

160-646: The city was Japan's busiest port for processing bonito and swordfish . Presently, fishing and associated industries account for 85% of jobs in the town. Kesennuma has 14 public elementary schools and eight junior high schools operated by the town government, and four public high schools operated by the Miyagi Prefectural Board of Education and one private high school. The prefectural government also operates one special educational school. [REDACTED] East Japan Railway Company (JR East) - Kesennuma Line (operations suspended indefinitely and replaced by

176-490: The city were destroyed by the tsunami which followed the Tōhoku earthquake . The island of Ōshima and its 3,000 residents, included in the city limits, was isolated by the tsunami which damaged the ferry connections. After the tsunami, spilled fuel from the town's fishing fleet caught fire and burned for four days. As of 22 April 2011, the city had confirmed 837 deaths with 1,196 missing. In August 2013, residents decided to scrap

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192-772: The later portion of the Heian period , the area was ruled by the Northern Fujiwara . During the Sengoku period , the area was contested by various samurai clans before the area came under the control of the Date clan of Sendai Domain during the Edo period , under the Tokugawa shogunate . The town of Kesennuma was established on June 1, 1889 within Motoyoshi District, Miyagi with the establishment of

208-456: The modern municipalities system. Kesennuma City was formed on June 1, 1953, when the town of Kesennuma annexed the neighboring town of Shishiori and village of Matsuiwa. On April 1, 1955, the city annexed the villages of Niitsuki, Hashikami and Oshima. On March 31, 2006, the town of Karakuwa and on September 1, 2009 the town of Motoyoshi (both from Motoyoshi District) were likewise incorporated into Kesennuma. On March 11, 2011, large parts of

224-596: The ria). The Kingsbridge Estuary in Devon , England, is an extreme example of a ria forming an estuary disproportionate to the size of its river; no significant river flows into it at all, only a number of small streams. The word ria comes from Galician ría which comes from río (river). Rias are present all along the Galician coast in Spain . As originally defined, the term was restricted to drowned river valleys cut parallel to

240-428: The south. Iwate Prefecture makes up the remainder of its borders, with the city of Ichinoseki to the west, and the city of Rikuzentakata to the north. The highest point in Kesennuma is the 711.9 metres (2,336 ft) high Mount Ōmori, on the border with Motoyoshi , while the lowest point is at sea level. The Ō River flows through the city and into Kesennuma Bay. Iwate Prefecture Miyagi Prefecture Kesennuma has

256-440: The structure of the country rock that was at right angles to the coastline. However the definition of ria was later expanded to other flooded river valleys regardless of the structure of the country rock. For a time European geomorphologists considered rias to include any broad estuarine river mouth, including fjords . These are long narrow inlets with steep sides or cliffs, created in a valley carved by glacial activity . In

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