River
Eurotas
82 km from source to mouth · Greece.
GreeceFlows into Laconian Gulf10th longest in Greece
In numbers
Length
82km
Average flow
23m³/s
Basin
1,965km²
Drop
289m
from 290 m to 1 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
82 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 290 m
- 3 kmPellána1,931 people
- 26 kmSparta16,239 people
- 31 kmOenustributary
- 74 kmSkála2,817 people
- 75 kmMetal bridge, Evrotas at Skala
- 82 kmLaconian Gulfat 1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River of Peloponnese, Greece
At the mouth it carries 23 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 109 seconds. It drops from 290 m to 1 m, 3.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,965 km², about the size of MU. 47,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January; lowest: from June to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- SpartaLargest city on its banks · 16,239 people
- Kalamata Airport (KLX)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 36 km from the cityCar hire at KLX airport (Kalamata)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Eurotas, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 2.1 m³/s in the lowest month to 67 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Eurotas: the basin in numbers
1,965 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 47,000people live in the basin
- 24/km²people per km²
- 642maverage altitude of the basin
- 768mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 14.0°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 39% Forest
- 2% Cropland
- 3% Pasture
- 1% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Eurotas: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Eurotas in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
29mountains at the sourcePeakyas
1island off the mouthIslandyas
Mountains at the source (29)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Grammeni Petra12 km away1,596m
- Xerovouna13 km away1,522m
- Korakovouni12 km away908m
- Korfadi8.6 km away857m
- Krindaraki7.1 km away714m
- Kambia9.7 km away639m
- Glatsinikos2.0 km away320m
- Tourles8.0 km away
21 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
Islands off the mouth (1)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Cranae12 km away0.1km²
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Eurotas in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
Also: Oenus
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Greece120 km45 m³/s141 km awayAchelous RiverGreece217 km87 m³/s222 km awayArachthosGreece110 km38 m³/s286 km awayAcheronGreece58 km13 m³/s332 km awayPineiosGreece216 km67 m³/s342 km awayGreat Menderes River
Turkey548 km90 m³/s408 km awayVardarGreece388 km180 m³/s412 km awayHaliacmonGreece297 km56 m³/s409 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q119152) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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