Alfeios
Sign in to saveThe Alpheios (, , Latin Alpheus), sometimes spelled Alfeiós, is the main stream of the Alpheios Valley drainage system, a dendritic type, originating on the north slopes of Mount Taygetus, located in the center of the Peloponnesus of Greece, and flowing to the northwest to the vicinity of Olympia, where it turns to the west and, after being impounded by the Flokas Dam, a hydroelectric facility, empties into the Gulf of Kyparissia of the Ionian Sea south of Pyrgos. The entrance into the gulf through agricultural land and across an unpopulated, sandy beach partially blocked by a spit is hydrolog
Key facts
- River.name
- Alpheios
- River.name_other
- Alpheus (Latinized), Alphios (Anglicized)
- River.name_etymology
- "whitewater" (Frisk under Ἀλφός, "white")
- River.image
- Alpheios - Pyrris Arkadias.jpg
- River.image_size
- 300px
- River.image_caption
- Lower Alpheios
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- A stretch of the upper Alpheios
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- File:Alfios.png
- River.map_size
- 300px
- River.map_caption
- Topographical map showing the Alpheios and its major tributaries.
- River.map_alt
- Map of the Alphaios River
- River.source1
- Alpheios
- River.source1_location
- Falaisia
- River.mouth
- Ionian Sea
- River.mouth_location
- Gulf of Kyparissia
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Greece
- River.subdivision_type2
- Regional units
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- Hydrologic characteristics
- Classification of the Alpheios
- Classification by catchment area
- Classification by zone
- River morphology
- The question of the source
- Stages of the river
- The Alpheios in antiquity
- In mythology
- In literature
- References
- Reference bibliography
- External links
The Alpheios (, , Latin Alpheus), sometimes spelled Alfeiós, is the main stream of the Alpheios Valley drainage system, a dendritic type, originating on the north slopes of Mount Taygetus, located in the center of the Peloponnesus of Greece, and flowing to the northwest to the vicinity of Olympia, where it turns to the west and, after being impounded by the Flokas Dam, a hydroelectric facility, empties into the Gulf of Kyparissia of the Ionian Sea south of Pyrgos. The entrance into the gulf through agricultural land and across an unpopulated, sandy beach partially blocked by a spit is hydrologically unspectacular, with the water too shallow to be navigable by any but the smallest craft.
The concept of a single source has little meaning for most of the rivers of Greece, which begin as a confluence of multiple springs in the mountain valleys. There is almost never just one, although most may be unreported or neglected. Thus it is appropriate to speak "a source" or "the sources" but never "the source."