Topografische Karte Municipality of Patras

Name: Topografische Karte Municipality of Patras, Höhe, Relief.

Ort: Municipality of Patras, Achaia Regional Unit, Western Greece, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian, Greece (38.11488 21.60317 38.34141 21.94092)

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 291 m

Minimale Höhe: -4 m

Maximale Höhe: 1.924 m

A central feature of the urban geography of Patras is its division into upper and lower sections. This is the result of an interplay between natural geography and human settlement patterns; the lower section of the city (Kato Poli), which includes the 19th-century urban core and the port, is adjacent to the sea and stretches between the estuaries of the rivers of Glafkos and Haradros. It is built on what was originally a bed of river soils and dried-up swamps. The older upper section (Ano Poli) covers the area of the pre-modern settlement, around the Fortress, on what is the last elevation of Mount Panachaikon (1,926 m (6,319 ft)) before the Gulf of Patras.

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