Arkalochori
Sign in to saveArkalochori () is a town and a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Minoa Pediada, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of .
Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Arkalochori
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Αρκαλοχώρι
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipal unit
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- DE Arkalochoriou.svg
- Greek Dimos.map_caption
- Location within the regional unit
- Greek Dimos.image_skyline
- Αρκαλοχώρι 6550.jpg
- Greek Dimos.caption_skyline
- View from the south
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Crete
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Heraklion
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Minoa Pediada
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 8547
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 3927
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 237.6
- Greek Dimos.website
- http://www.arkalochori.gr
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Town details
- Archaeology and the Arkalochori cave
- Notes
- References
- External links
Arkalochori () is a town and a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Minoa Pediada, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of .
The town lies on the western edge of the Minoa Pediada plain, west of the Lasithi plateau, in central Crete. It contains the archaeological site of a Minoan sacred cave. The sacred cave was used from the third millennium to ca 1450 BCE, when the natural ceiling collapsed, fortuitously protecting some of the votive deposits there.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arkalochori” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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