Louros

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Louros is a small town of about 4,000 inhabitants and also the main town of the Louros municipality which includes about 13,000 people. It is located in the Preveza Prefecture in northwestern Greece. Louros' official name is Lamari and it is built next to the mountain Valaoritis.

Up to a few hundrend years ago, the Louros valley was a bayou. Later, it dried up and its good quality earth along the help of the Louros River that runs through it, has helped the local agriculture with production of olives, oranges and tomatoes. Its original inhabitants, up to 1965, were Gypsies and Aromanian sheep-herders (in Greek: Βλάχοι) but later some of the Greek population left their villages at the rocky mountains nearby and built houses in the area.

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Louros has a very low crime rate (everyone knows everybody else making things difficult for any type of crime). The last homicide took place in 1985.

Louros belongs to the Amvrakikos National Park.

Municipalities and communities of the Preveza Prefecture
Anogeio • Fanari • Filippiada • Louros • Parga • Preveza • Thesprotiko • Zalongo
Kranea