Kapsas

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Kapsas
Κάψας
Statistics
Prefecture: Arcadia
Province: Mantineia
Municipality: Mantineia
Municipal district: Kapsas
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
37.61 (37° 36' 37") N
22.345 (22° 20' 41") E
Population: (2001)
-Settlement
-Percent of the municipal district
Percent of the municipality
505
14.39%
Altitude:
 -lowest:
 -centre:
about 650 m
700 m
about 1,600 m (west)
Postal code: GR-221 00
Area/distance code: 11-(00)30-27940
Car designation (as of 2006): TP

Kapsas (Greek: Κάψας), also called Kapsia (Greek: Κάψια) is a community in the municipality of Mantineia in the prefecture of Arcadia on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece. The community is located on GR-74 and GR-33 for northbound land connecting Pyrgos, Patras and Tripoli and E65, especially GR-37 and GR-7 of the by-pass of Tripoli. Distances from Tripoli is 8 km NW, SE of Levidi, S of Mantineia and W of E65 (New Tripoli - Corinth Highway).

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[edit] Nearest places

[edit] Geography

[edit] Historical population

Year Population Change Percent of the
municipality
1981 581 - -
1991 460 -121 or -20.83% -
2001 505 33 or 9.78% 14.39%

[edit] Information

Kapsas has a small school, a church, a small post office, and a square (plateia). Residential houses are lined up with the highway.

The mountain of Mainalon (Maenalus) is in the west and southwest and is filled with pine trees. A smaller mountain is in the northwest. The reat of the area are filled with agricultural lands with potato, pasture and vegetable farming. Also near Kapsas is a cave in which was explored.

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[edit] See also

Communities of Mantineia/Mantinia
Artemisi | Kapsas | Louka | Nestani | Pikerni | Sagka | Simiades
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