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Achelous River (Arcadia)

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Achelous (Ancient Ἀῷ Akhelôios), also Acheloos, is a mountain torrent of ancient Arcadia, flowing into the Alpheus, from the north of Mount Lycaeus.

Flows through: Greece.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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