Faraklata ( el, Φαρακλάτα) is a village and a community in the municipal unit of

Argostoli Argostoli ( el, Αργοστόλι, Katharevousa: Ἀργοστόλιον) is a town and a municipality on the island of Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2019 local government reform it is one of the three municipalities on the island ...

Cephalonia Kefalonia or Cephalonia ( el, Κεφαλονιά), formerly also known as Kefallinia or Kephallenia (), is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece and the 6th largest island in Greece after Crete, Euboea, Lesbos, Rhodes and Chios. It i ...

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. It is situated on a mountain slope above the eastern shore of the

Gulf of Argostoli The Gulf of Argostoli ( el, Κόλπος Αργοστολίου) is a gulf of the Ionian Sea on the island of Cephalonia, western Greece. It separates the Paliki peninsula from mainland Cephalonia, and opens toward the Ionian Sea in the south. The ...

, at about 220 m elevation. Faraklata is 2 km south of

Dilinata Dilinata ( el, Διλινάτα) is a village in the municipal unit of Argostoli, Cephalonia, Greece. It is situated on a mountain slope, at 400 m elevation. It is 2 km east of Davgata, 2 km north of Faraklata and 6 km northeast of ...

, 4 km northeast of Argostoli and 7 km northwest of

Valsamata Valsamata ( el, Βαλσαμάτα) is a village in the municipal unit of Omala, Greece, Omala on the island of Kefalonia, Greece. It is located 9 km east of Argostoli and 17 km west of Poros, Cephalonia, Poros. The village is situated in ...

. The community consists of the villages Faraklata (population 330 in 2011), Razata (pop. 507), Drapano (pop. 135) and Prokopata (pop. 86). There is a small cave east of the village. Faraklata suffered great damage from the 1953 Ionian earthquake.

Historical population

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{{Authority control Populated places in Cephalonia