River
Pineios
216 km from source to mouth · Greece.
GreeceFlows into Thermaic Gulf6th longest in Greece
In numbers
Length
216km
Average flow
67m³/s
Basin
9,500km²
Drop
491m
from 490 m to -1 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
216 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 490 m
- 33 kmKalampáka8,138 people
- 60 kmMetal arched bridge, Karavoporos
- 65 kmPortaikostributary
- 70 kmLithaiostributary
- 103 kmEnipeastributary
- 148 kmLárisa146,926 people
- 149 kmGiánnouli12,277 people
- 160 kmFálanna3,987 people
- 171 kmTitarisiostributary
- 200 kmTempe bridge
- 216 kmThermaic Gulfat -1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Thessaly, Greece
At the mouth it carries 67 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 37 seconds. It drops from 490 m to -1 m, 2.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 9,500 km², about the size of CY. 518,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to February; lowest: from June to September. Its dams hold back little of its water (9.4% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- LárisaLargest city on its banks · 146,926 people
- Nea Anchialos National Airport (VOL)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 56 km from the cityCar hire at VOL airport (Nea Anchialos)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From April to June and from August to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Pineios, month by month
Highest water: from December to February
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from April to June and from August to September.
From about 12 m³/s in the lowest month to 140 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Pineios: the basin in numbers
9,300 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 518,000people live in the basin
- 56/km²people per km²
- 456maverage altitude of the basin
- 655mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 13.9°Caverage air temperature
- 11%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 15% Forest
- 21% Cropland
- 10% Pasture
- 2% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Pineios: what you find on the way
- 11Weirs
- 1Rapids
- 1Boat ramps
- 2River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Pineios 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.
7beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
7mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Beaches (7)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Nei Pori Beach13 km away26.4°C
- Pantelehmonas Beach18 km away26.4°C
- Platamonas Beach15 km away26.4°C
- Skotina Beach20 km away26.4°C
- Nea Mesagkala Beach8.1 km away26.4°C
- Kouloura Beach6.1 km away26.4°C
- Stomio Beach1.9 km away26.4°C
Mountains at the source (7)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Kedros14 km away1,796m
- Variko13 km away
- Mia13 km away
- Kitsonasou10 km away
- Dokimi10 km away
- Petrokambos11 km away
- Morava8.7 km away
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.
Photos
Pineios in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (5)
Also: Enipeas, Titarisios, Portaikos, Lithaios, Pamisos
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Greece388 km180 m³/s70 km awayHaliacmonGreece297 km56 m³/s67 km awayStrumaGreece415 km80 m³/s139 km awayArachthosGreece110 km38 m³/s174 km awayStrumica
Bulgaria114 km100 m³/s180 km awayCrna
North Macedonia207 km37 m³/s196 km awayNestosGreece230 km40 m³/s206 km awayAcheronGreece58 km13 m³/s206 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q376328) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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