Agios Panteleimonas

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Agios Panteleimonas (Greek, modern: Άγιος Παντελέιμωνας, ancient: Άγιος Παντελέιμων), also Lechaina/Lechena Beach (Greek: Παραλία Λεχαινων) is a small community in the northwestern part of Lechaina. Its population is about seventy. The sects include Kotineika, Koloveika and Veskoukeika. There are two churches, Agios Panteleimonas and Agios Athanasios. Small swamp areas cover a small portion of the east. The community is irrigated, one of them named Melissos. Much of the houses on Lechaina's north side is close to the forest.

The community a lot of small summer homes and a restaurant, also known to some tourists. It even has an abandoned soccer field, and two pristine restaurants, one in the central part.

Camp Lechaina spelt Lehena before the 1990s was a big campsite for Northern Elia (Elea). Shut Down in the late 1990s because another campsite on Myrsini Beach was open for business. It was later reported fire during the late-afternoon of July of 2001.

Not far from the camp are fertile flat unhabited plains with farmlands that stretch from outside the municipal boundaries ending up near thalassa 'the sea' with coastline. The size is about ten km². A creek filled with littered things named Andravida flows in the middle. Peneus River used to flow on what is now Andravida creek in ancient times and was a swamp region. Some torrential weather or a drought changed the course of the river to the Palaiochori. The swamp/grassland? was drained to make room for farmland. Today only marshes are left next of Aghios Panteleimonos beach marking the original swampy wetlands, which used to cover 100 m. by 1 km. 8 to 10 km² before drainage somewhere in the late 2nd millennium.

The water emptying into the sea is somewhere between 100s of m³ to none durimg Summer weather. Andravida's output during summer months is nearly 6 to 12 m³ every flow, hundreds to thousands every day.