Desino ( el, Δεσινό, formerly Τεσινόν - ''Tesinon'') is a mountain village in the municipal unit of

Aroania Aroania ( el, Αροάνια) is a village and a former municipality in Achaea, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kalavryta, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area ...

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 ...

. In 2011, it had a population of 37. The village is situated in the eastern foothills of

Mount Erymanthos Mount Erymanthos ( el, Ερύμανθος, Latin: ''Erymanthus'') overall is an irregular massif of peaks connected by ridges embedded in the mountains located in the north of the Peloponnese, Greece. Erymanthos is on the west side. Its highest ...

. The name is a corruption of the word στενό "narrow". Desino is 2 km east of

Kamenianoi Kamenianoi ( el, Καμενιάνοι) is a mountain village and a community in the municipal unit of Aroania, Achaea, Greece. In 2011 the population was 85 for the village, and 116 for the community, which includes the village Drovolovo. It is si ...

, 4 km west of Priolithos and 15 km southwest of

Kalavryta Kalavryta ( el, Καλάβρυτα) is a town and a municipality in the mountainous east-central part of the regional unit of Achaea, Greece. The town is located on the right bank of the river Vouraikos, south of Aigio, southeast of Patras and ...

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Desino at the GTP Travel Pages
{{Aroania Aroania Populated places in Achaea

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