Vikos Gorge
The Vikos Gorge or Vikos Canyon is a gorge in the Pindus Mountains of northwestern Greece. It lies on the southern slopes of Mount Tymphe with a length of about 32 km, depth ranging from 120 to 1350 m, and a width ranging from 2500 m to only a few meters at its narrowest part.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Gorge with an elevation of 741 metres
- Description: canyon in Greece
- Also known as: “Farángi Víkos” and “Farangi Vikou”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vikos and Mikro Papigko.
Vikos
Village
Vikos is a village in the municipality of Zagori, in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. Vikos is situated 4 km northwest of Vikos Gorge.
Mikro Papigko
Village
Photo: Ozcraft99, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mikro Papigko is a village, which is situated 4½ km north of Vikos Gorge.
Vikos Gorge
- Categories: canyon and landform
- Location: Epirus, Northern Greece, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Armenian—“Vikos Gorge” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Վիկոս”
- Azerbaijani: “Vikos dərəsi”
- Bashkir: “Викос тарлауығы”
- Bashkir: “Викос”
- Bulgarian: “Викос”
- Cebuano: “Farángi Víkou”
- Croatian: “Vikos”
- Czech: “Vikos”
- Czech: “Φαράγγι του Βίκου”
- Danish: “Vikoskløften”
- Dutch: “Vikoskloof”
- Finnish: “Víkoksen rotko”
- French: “gorges de Vikos”
- French: “Gorges de Vikos”
- German: “Vikos-Schlucht”
- Greek: “Farángi Víkou”
- Greek: “Φαράγγι Βίκου”
- Greek: “Φαράγγι του Βίκου”
- Hebrew: “קניון ויקוס”
- Hungarian: “Vikosz-szurdok”
- Japanese: “ヴィコス峡谷”
- Lithuanian: “Viko tarpeklis”
- Macedonian: “Вик”
- Macedonian: “Викос”
- Macedonian: “Високо”
- Russian: “Викос”
- Serbian: “Клисура Викос”
- Slovenian: “Soteska Vikos”
- Swedish: “Farángi Víkou”
- Turkish: “Vikos Kanyonu”
- Ukrainian: “Вікос”
- Western Armenian: “Վիքոս կիրճ”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Vikos Gorge”. Photo: Skamnelis, CC BY-SA 3.0.