Titarisios

Titarisios
Origin Mount Olympus
Mouth Pineios
Basin countries Greece

The Titarisios (Greek: Τιταρήσιος), older form: Xerias (Greek: Ξεριάς) is one of the major rivers in Thessaly and is also one of the major tributaries of the Pineios. The river begins at the western part of Mount Olympus and flows west, then southwest and merges with the Pineios. The tributary is at 70 m above sea level and its long length is only flooded.

The main physiognomic units of the straw community are mainly the Phragmitis australis as well as the maple, the willow and birch trees. Together with the taxonomy type system of moisture of the Treaty of Ramsar in which it was signed in Montreux in 1999, the Titarisios river is in the category of international protection and characterizes as a river with continuous flows, along with the information in whjich continues after the exitins from the white rapids, it does not have durable flows. The today's studies of the river are the irrigation in which is large with lowering individually due to the large decline of in recent years. In the moisture, it has made drastic changes.

The watershed of Titarisios includes the inner aggravation from the water flows. Characteristic paradigm have unexamined areas of flows from the villages of Rodias, Vryotopos and Deleri. Around 3 km from Argyroupoli is Lake Mati Tyrnavou. Mati is today the only natural lake in Thessaly and with a small area (250 ha) it had been rarely thrathened by human development with and has an ecosystem with rich plants and other species.

Plants

In the area features plants in which includes bamboo sticks including the Arundo domax, the Phragmites communis, Jungus maritimus, Salicornia herbacea, Chenopodium heinricus, Salsoa kali, Amaranthus reteoflexus and Portulaca oleracea. It has trees including popular (Populus nigra), maple (Platanus orientalis, birch (Populus alba), elm (Ulmus campestris and white willow (Salis alba).

Fishes

With all of its administration at EKVY and fishing in the area, in the sweetest water of the Titarisios it has 37 species of fish, it includes another 11 species. Titarisios with the location in which it brings together with the Pineios river into the sea, functions as one many rich feeding system in which brings in lots of fish. Species includes Acipenser studio, Alosa fallax nilotica, Nemacheilus barbatulus and Sabanejewia aurata balcanica.