River
Acheron
58 km from source to mouth · Greece.
GreeceFlows into Ionian Sea
In numbers
Length
58km
Average flow
13m³/s
Basin
763km²
Drop
236m
from 233 m to -3 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
58 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 233 m
- 42 kmKanaláki2,446 people
- 58 kmCocytustributary
- 58 kmIonian Seaat -3 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River of northwest Greece
At the mouth it carries 13 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 195 seconds. It drops from 233 m to -3 m, 4.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 763 km².
Where to start
- KanalákiLargest city on its banks · 2,446 people
- Aktion National Airport (PVK)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 37 km from the cityCar hire at PVK airport (Preveza)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe3 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Acheron: what you find on the way
- 1Rapids
- 2Canoe put-insDragonfly Kayak
- 1Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Acheron in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
14beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
8mountains at the sourcePeakyas
6islands off the mouthIslandyas
Beaches (14)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Valtos Beach9.2 km away25.8°C
- Mesovríka23 km away25.7°C
- Pláka23 km away25.7°C
- Megálo Agní23 km away25.7°C
- Mikró Agní23 km away25.7°C
- Skídi23 km away25.7°C
- Sarakíniko23 km away25.7°C
- Bállos24 km away25.7°C
6 more on CoastyaOpen Coastya ↗
Mountains at the source (8)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Tomaros9.9 km away1,974m
- Psili Koryfi14 km away1,298m
- Ori Souliou11 km away
- Ori Paramythias9.9 km away
- Sisouni6.1 km away
- Kalpaki5.1 km away
- Dragopsa13 km away
- Vritzacha3.3 km away
Islands off the mouth (6)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Paxos27 km away25km²
- Antipaxos23 km away5.0km²
- Panagia25 km away
- Mongonisi islet24 km away
- Agios Nikolaos islet29 km away
- Ortholithos28 km away
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
Also: Cocytus
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Greece110 km38 m³/s54 km awayAchelous RiverGreece217 km87 m³/s112 km awayVjosa
Albania280 km150 m³/s186 km awayDevollAlbania196 km48 m³/s184 km awayOsumAlbania161 km40 m³/s184 km awayShkumbinAlbania181 km620 m³/s217 km awayPineiosGreece216 km67 m³/s206 km awayAlfeiosGreece120 km45 m³/s200 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q191087) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Coastya, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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