Alfeios River
For a Greek mythological figure see
Alpheus. Alfeiós (
Greek: Αλφειός, also romanized as Alpheus, Alpheios, Alfiós) is a river in
Peloponnese,
Greece. Its source is near
Megalopoli in the prefecture
Arcadia. It flows along
Olympia and empties into the
Ionian Sea in the
prefecture of Ilia, near
Pyrgos. The river flows in the prefectures of Arcadia and Ilia and is the longest river in the Peloponnese and the length is 110 km. A poem called Le fleuve Alphée (the Alpheus River) by
Roger Caillois is mainly about this river. The river begins near Davia in central Arcadia, then it flows between Leontari and Megalopoli and the municipal boundary of Falaisia and Megalopoli in a wooded valley and south of
Karytaina and flows north of Andritsina and for about 15 to 20 km with the prefectural boundary with
Ilia and Arcadia. It later flows with the provincial boundary of Olympia and Ilia for the rest of the length and the municipal boundary of Olympia and Alifeira to the south, it later flows to the municipal boundary of Skillounta to the south and later with the Pyrgos and Volaka boundary and finally for 2 km, into the wetlands with bushes. The ancient highway linking
Patras and
Kalamata ran along this river for most of the length east of Olympia.
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