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Akrotirio Araxou ( el, Ακρωτήριο Αράξου) is a small coastal village of Naval Radio Transmitter Facility of Araxos
/ref> A few kilometers away of the village is the sandy beach of Gianiskari. There is an unpaved dirt road that goes to the beach (partly paved, only for the first 2–3 km).
Akrotirio Araxou ( el, Ακρωτήριο Αράξου) is a small coastal village of Achaea
Achaea () or Achaia (), sometimes transliterated from Greek as Akhaia (, ''Akhaïa'' ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Western Greece and is situated in the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. The ...
, Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...
. The village lies at the northwestern part of Peloponnese
The Peloponnese (), Peloponnesus (; el, Πελοπόννησος, Pelopónnēsos,(), or Morea is a peninsula and geographic regions of Greece, geographic region in southern Greece. It is connected to the central part of the country by the Isthmu ...
near Cape Araxos
Cape Araxos ( el, Ακρωτήριον Άραξος), also known as Cape Pappas (Άκρα Πάππα), is a cape in the northwest of the Peloponnese in Greece. It is the northwesternmost point of Peloponnese and separates the Gulf of Patras from th ...
. The village of Araxos
Araxos ( el, Άραξος, la, Araxus) is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Larissos of the municipality West Achaea in the northwestern part of Achaea, Greece. The community consists of the villages Araxos, Akrotirio Araxos and ...
and the namesake military airport are few kilometers away.
Since 2011, Akrotirio Araxou is part of the municipal unit of Larissos
Larissos ( el, Λαρίσσος) is a former municipality in Achaea, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality West Achaea, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 225.72 ...
, of the municipality West Achaea
West Achaea ( el, Δυτική Αχαΐα – ''Dytiki Achaia'') is a municipal subdivision within greater Achaea – an ancient region of West Greece which forms part of the modern territory of larger Greece. The seat of the municipality is the t ...
. The village is beside a lagoon
A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses. Lagoons are commonly divided into ''coastal lagoons'' (or ''barrier lagoons'') a ...
known as Pappas, Kalogria, or Araxos. The lagoon covers an area of 450 hectares and has a maximum depth of 3,4 m. In the 2011 population census it had a population of 35.
Near the village is the Araxos Naval Fort (Ναυτικό Οχυρό Αράξου), a small military base of the Hellenic Navy
The Hellenic Navy (HN; el, Πολεμικό Ναυτικό, Polemikó Naftikó, War Navy, abbreviated ΠΝ) is the naval force of Greece, part of the Hellenic Armed Forces. The modern Greek navy historically hails from the naval forces of vari ...
. The base hosts the Naval Radio Transmitter Facility of Araxos (Κέντρο Εκπομπής Αράξου)./ref> A few kilometers away of the village is the sandy beach of Gianiskari. There is an unpaved dirt road that goes to the beach (partly paved, only for the first 2–3 km).
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