Xenopoulo ( el, Ξενόπουλο) is a small village and a community in the island of

Kefalonia 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 ...

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. Its population in 2011 was 50 for the village, and 108 for the community, which includes the villages

Andriolata Andriolata, ( el, Ανδριολάτα) is a settlement in the island of Kefalonia, Greece. It is part of the local community of Xenopoulo and the municipal unit of Eleios-Pronnoi. In 2011 its population was 8. It is situated 1.5 km north of ...

(pop. 8) and Kapandriti (pop. 50). Xenopoulo is situated at the eastern slope of

Mount Ainos Mount Aenos or Ainos (Ancient Greek: '' Ὄρος Αἶνος''; Modern Greek: '' Όρος Αίνος''; Italian: ''Monte Nero'' or ''Montagna Nera'') is the tallest mountain on the Ionian island of Cephalonia, Greece, with an elevation of . It ...

, at about 320 m elevation. It is 3 km northwest of Agia Eirini, 5 km west of

Poros Poros ( el, Πόρος) is a small Greece, Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, about south from the port of Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a wide sea channel, with the town of Galatas, Troizina, Galatas on ...

and 21 km east 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 ...

. Xenopoulo was devastated by the

1953 Ionian earthquake The 1953 Ionian earthquake (also known as the Great Kefalonia earthquake) struck the southern Ionian Islands in Greece on August 12. In mid-August, there were over 113 recorded earthquakes in the region between Kefalonia and Zakynthos, and the m ...

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