| Erineos Ερινεός |
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Erineos
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| Country: | Greece |
| Region: | West Greece |
| Regional unit: | Achaea |
| Municipality: | Aigialeia |
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| - Population: | 3,768 |
| - Area: | 99.67 km2 (38 sq mi) |
| - Density: | 38 /km2 (98 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone: | EET/EEST (UTC+2/3) |
| Elevation (center): | 20 m (66 ft) |
| Postal: | 250 09 |
| Telephone: | 26910 |
| Auto: | ΑΧ |
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| www.erineos.gr | |
Erineos (Greek: Ερινεός) is a former municipality in Achaea, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Aigialeia, of which it is a municipal unit.[1] Its seat of administration was in the village of Kamares. It is connected by the old road of GR-8 linking Patras and Corinth along with Aigio while the superhighway is to the north. Kamares is also linked with the road linking to Seliana, the only road linking through the Panachaicus. It is located about 10 km W of Aigio, about 40 km NW of Pteri, about 30 km E of Patras from the old road and about 36 km from the superhighwway via the Longos interchange to the east which its nearest interchange and is also accessed to Longos Beach. The municipality is the second northernmost municipality in the entire peninsula of the Peloponnese, right after Rio.
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The municipal unit Erineos is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):
| Year | Population |
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| 1991 | 3,683 |
| 2001 | 3,768 |
The municipality are made up of farmlands which includes groves and some forest to the east and the northern part, the rest of the area are mountainous and are forested in the eastern and the central parts, the rest of the area are made up of grasslands and the western half is part of the Panachaiko mountain range. The Salmenikos river flows into the municipality.
The area had a Ryhpae land and the ancient city of Rhypae which was one of the cities of the Achaean League. By the sea had a naby between Athens and the Peloponnese around 412 BC. In Kamares, it has artifacts dating back to the Roman times in which one of them derives its name to the present town. In Salmeniko, it had a castle, the Orias Castle. In present-day Lampiri, it had a lake in the ancient times named Rhypae or Erineos. The origin of the name of Lampiri comes from the Frankish leader of the area Gerard de Lambri. The municipality was founded in 1994 and included the former communes of Kamares, Neos Erineos and Ziria. In 1998 under the Capodistrian Constitution added Arravonitsa, Damakini and Salmeniko.
The mountains to the northwest suffered a catastrophic forest fire in 1994 which saw hundreds of hectares englufed in flames. It took about five years to regreen the affected area.
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