Araxos (Greek: Άραξος), Latin form: Araxus is a village located in the municipality of Larissos in the northwestern part of the prefecture of Achaia. It is located on a road connecting south to Lappa and east to Lakkopetra and Kato Achaia and also a road to Kalogria and Metochi. It is located 9 km N of GR-9/E55, 14 km W of Kato Achaia, 48 km (old: 38 km) WSW of Patras and 68 km (old: 74 km) N of Pyrgos. The name dates back to ancient times. This article is about the modern Greek district Achaea. ... Kato Achaia, pre-1990s/rarely Kato Ahaia (Greek: Κάτο Αχαϊά) Is a community 22 km SW of Patras, 242 km W of Athens and 74 km (old 78 km) NE of Pyrgos. ... Greece Interstate 9 is the second-longest national highway that runs into the Peloponnese. ... The European route E55 passes through the following cities: Helsingborg - Elsinore - Rostock - Berlin - Dresden - Teplice - Prague - Vienna - Ancona - Ioannina - Arta (bypasses) - Amphilochia - Agrinion - Messolonghi - Rhion * Antirrhion - Patras - Kourtesi - Marathia - Pyrgos - Epitalion - Zacharo - Kalo Nero - near Dorio - near Oichalia - Allagi - Thouria - Kalamáta From Helsingborg, the route continues northward through Sweden and... Kato Achaia, pre-1990s/rarely Kato Ahaia (Greek: Κάτο Αχαϊά) Is a community 22 km SW of Patras, 242 km W of Athens and 74 km (old 78 km) NE of Pyrgos. ... This article needs cleanup. ... For other places that have the same name, click Pyrgos (disambiguation) Pyrgos City (Greek: Πύργος) is the capital of the Prefecture of Ilia in Greece and its located in the western part of the Pelopennese. ...

Subdivisions

• Paralimni, (Greek: Παραλίμνη meaning lagoon, which is located in the south-southeast) also Mavro Oros, N - a small settlement with less than ten buildings located in the north at the cape. Much of the area are rocky with a few trees. Cape Araxos (Άκρα Άραξος Akra-) the like between the Gulf of Patras and the Ionian Sea. The view of the green hills of Aetolia and Aitolia-Acarnania along with Messolonghi can be seen in the north, the northern part of Achaea, the western half of the mountains of Phocis, mount Panachaicus and most of the Patras area including the new Rio-Antirio bridge in during nightime hours, the bottom part at 40 m below cannot bee seen due to a minor curvature. The northern half of Zante and the eastern half of Kefallinia and Ithaca which cannot be seen during sunset in the west. The cape and the small peninsula sits north of Mavro Oros.

The settlement sits on a plain with the Ionian sea in the west and the Pappa Lagoon in the east. Mavro Oros covers the southern part and a small hill covers the north with a small plain. A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow salt water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed sandbank, coral reef, or similar feature. ... The Gulf of Patras (Greek: Πατραϊκός Κόλπος Patraikos Kolpos) is a gulf that stretches from the eastern part of the Ionian Sea between Oxeia island and Cape Araxos in the south in the west up to the Strait of Rion at the capes Rio and Antirrio to the east next... The Ionian Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. ... Aetolia has a geographical presence in Greece and in cyberspace. ... Aitolia_Acarnania, (Greek: Αιτωλοακαρνανία) also Aetoloacarnania, rarely Aetolia and Acarnania or Aitoloakarnania is one of the fifty_one prefectures of Greece. ... Phocis (Greek, Modern: Φωκίδα, Ancient/Katharevousa: -s, also Phokida, Phokis) is an ancient district of central Greece. ... The Panachaicus (Greek, Modern: Παναχαϊκό, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on, commonly Panachaïkos or Panachaiko and Panahaiko, Voidia or Vodia in medieval, post-medieval and until the beginning of the 20th century. ... The piers of the Rio-Antirio bridge can slide on their gravel beds to accommodate tectonic movement. ... Zakýnthos (Ζάκυνθος, also known as Zante), the third largest of the Ionian Islands, covers an area of 410 square kilometers and its coastline is roughly 123 kilometers in length. ... Kefallinia, also known as Kefalonia or Cefalonia (Ancient Greek: Κεφαλλήνια Modern Greek: Κεφαλλονιά), is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece. ... Ithaca, see Ithaca (disambiguation). ...

Nearest places

• Lakkopetra, E
• Lappa, S
• Metochi, WSW
• Kalogria, W

Lakkopetra (Greek: Λακκόπετρα), rarely Lakopetra is a village of northwestern Achaia, located 10 km NW of Kato Achaia, 4 km ENE of Araxos, approx. ... Lappa (Greek, Modern: Λάππα, Ancient/Katharevousa: -s), rarely Lapa is a community in the western part of Achaea in Greece. ... Metochi (Greek, Modern: Μετόχι, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on), older forms Metochi, Metochion, is a village in the municipality of Larissos and the western part of the prefecture of Achaia. ... There are places that have the name Kalogria (Greek: Καλογριά) In Cyprus Kallurga (Kalogria), in Northern Cyprus In Greece Kalogria, a beach village in the prefecture of Achaia Kalogria, a village in the prefecture of Chalkidiki There is a bay that have the name Kalogria: Kalogria Bay, a part of...

Geography

• Location:
  • Araxos
    • Longitude: 21.405 (21°24'17') E
    • Latitude: 38.16 (38°9'44') N
  • Mavros Oros/Paralimni
    • Longitude: 21.495 (21°29'45') E
    • Latitude: 37.658 (37°39'30') N
• Postal code: 271 00
• Elevation:
  • lowest: sea level
  • centre: around 3 m
  • highest: 289 m? @ Mavro Oros
• Dialing code: +11+30-26930 (030-26930)-34

Here are area codes beginning with 269, is an area code for much of the metropolitan area of Patras. ...

Historical population

Araxos has a small school, a church, and a square (plateia). Residential houses and buildings align with the road. The length is about 1 km and the width is only 40 to 50 m in average. 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Plateia (πλατεία) is the Greek word for town square. ...

Much of Araxos and the community are deforested. Farmlands dominate the south, the southeast and east. Forests are founded in the southwest, the north, around Araxos, the south and within the military airport. Rocky landscape and some forests are to the west as part of Mavro Oro (Greek: Μαύρο Όρος, meaning Black Mountain). It has a around 150 m tall mountain running southwest to northeast and a around 286 m mountaintop to the west. It also has a mountain range running south to north with a length of around 5 km and is mainly cliffy in the south. Another small mountain is in the northeast with the range running south to north with a tower on top of the mountain. The Pappa Lagoon which runs southwest then south to north is in the north and is only 100 m from the Araxos - Lakkopetra Road.

In the 1960s, construction of a military airport . 116 Combat Wing was established in the area, which in turn, hosted the NATO 345 Air Munitions Company. The runway length is 4 km and is run south to north. The military buildings are in the north and is accessed with a road to Lakkopetra in the north. Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ... The flag of NATO NATO 2002 Summit The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sometimes called North Atlantic Alliance, Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for defence collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, D.C., on April 4, 1949. ...

The main airport and the closest for Patras serving a few flights to other parts of Europe and a stopover for some flights is in the south. it is accessed next to the road south for E55. The airport code is GPA or less common LGRX. LGRX is the NATO designated code for the airport. The airport is located nearly 1 km east of the centre.

External links

• Araxos Airport (http:/www.alxd.gr/AirportQuide/Araxos/Araxos.htm/)

See also:

• Communities of Achaia