Vourinos
Sign in to saveVourinos () is a mountain range covering the eastern Grevena and southern Kozani regional units in Greece. Its highest elevation is . Its length is approximately from northwest to southeast. It is drained by the river Aliakmonas and its tributaries. There are forests on the northern slopes and the lower areas, the higher elevations are covered with grasslands. The nearest mountain ranges are Askio to the north and Kamvounia to the southeast.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Vourinos
- Mountain.other_name
- Βούρινος
- Mountain.photo
- Panoramic Mpourinos.jpg
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 1866
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1136
- Mountain.map
- Greece
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location in Greece
- Mountain.map_size
- 250
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.listing
- List of mountains in Greece, Ribu
- Mountain.location
- West Macedonia, Greece
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Vourinos () is a mountain range covering the eastern Grevena and southern Kozani regional units in Greece. Its highest elevation is . Its length is approximately from northwest to southeast. It is drained by the river Aliakmonas and its tributaries. There are forests on the northern slopes and the lower areas, the higher elevations are covered with grasslands. The nearest mountain ranges are Askio to the north and Kamvounia to the southeast.
The nearest villages are Chromio to the east, Palaiokastro to the northwest and Pontini to the southwest. The nearest larger towns are Grevena to the west and Kozani to the northeast. The A2 motorway (Igoumenitsa - Ioannina - Kozani - Thessaloniki - Alexandroupoli) and the Greek National Road 20 (Kozani - Konitsa - Ioannina) pass along its northern edge.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vourinos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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