Talvatissjön is a

lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...

in the

Jokkmokk Municipality Jokkmokk Municipality (, , , ) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Jokkmokk. The name ''Jokkmokk'' is Sami for the words "river" and "bend", since the town is situated close to a bend in the nearby r ...

in Lapland and is part of the

Lule River Lule River (, , ''Luleälven'') is a major river in Sweden, rising in northern Sweden and flowing southeast for before reaching the Gulf of Bothnia at Luleå. It is the second largest river by watershed area and length in Norrbotten County (afte ...

's main catchment area. The lake has an area of 0.166 square kilometers and is 240 meters above sea level. The lake is dewatered by the watercourse Talvatissjöbäcken. It is adjacent to the town of

Jokkmokk Jokkmokk () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Jokkmokk Municipality in Norrbotten County, provinces of Sweden, province of Lapland, Sweden, Lapland, Sweden, with 2,786 inhabitants in 2010. The Lule Sámi name of the place (compos ...

. The name comes from the Sami name of Lake ''Dálvvadisjávrasj'', after ''Dálvvadis'', the traditional Sami name of Jokkmokk, which is

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for lake.

References

Lule River basin Lakes of Norrbotten County Jokkmokk Municipality {{Norrbotten-geo-stub