Key facts
- Country
- Greece
- Location
- Pindus mountains
- Coordinates
- 39°41′13″N 21°8′31″E / 39.68694°N 21.14194°E / 39.68694; 21.14194
- Length
- 220 km (140 mi)
- Basin size
- 5,472 km (2,113 sq mi)
- Average
- 7,800,000,000 m (6,323,563 acre⋅ft) (annual mean)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Acheloos River marked on a satellite image. Labels in German.
The Achelous (Greek: Αχελώος, Ancient Greek: Ἀχελῷος Akhelôios), also Acheloos, is a river in Epirus, western Greece. It is 220 km (137 mi) long. It formed the boundary between Acarnania and Aetolia of antiquity. It empties into the Ionian Sea. In ancient times its spirit was venerated as the river god Achelous.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Achelous River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
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