Acheron Gorge
The Acheron is a river in the Epirus region of northwest Greece. In Greek mythology, Acheron is often depicted as the entrance to the Greek Underworld where souls must be ferried across by Charon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Georg.kaldis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river of northwest Greece
- Also known as: “Acheron”, “Acheron River”, “Acherontas”, “Acherontas Potamos”, “Akhéron Potamós”, “Mavropotamo”, “Mavropótamos”, and “Potamós Achéron”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ammoudia and Themelo.
Ammoudia
Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ammoudia is a small fishing village in the municipal unit of Fanari in the municipality of Parga, Preveza regional unit in Epirus, in northwestern Greece.
Themelo
Village
Themelo is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Fanari in the Preveza regional unit in the region of Epirus, in western Greece. The community includes the village Dikorfo.
Acheron Gorge
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Epirus, Northern Greece, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
This page is based on GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Acheron Gorge from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Acheron Gorge” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Gliqia”
- Albanian: “Lumi i Gliqisë”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἀχέρων”
- Arabic: “أشيرون”
- Armenian: “Ախերոն”
- Armenian: “Աքերոն”
- Asturian: “Ríu Acheron”
- Basque: “Akeronte”
- Belarusian: “Ахеран”
- Belarusian: “Ахерон”
- Bosnian: “Aheront”
- Breton: “Ac’heron”
- Breton: “Akeron”
- Bulgarian: “Ахерон”
- Catalan: “Aqueron”
- Catalan: “Aqueront”
- Cebuano: “Achérontas Potamós”
- Chinese: “阿克倫河”
- Chinese: “阿刻戎河”
- Chinese: “阿格龍河”
- Chuvash: “Ахерон”
- Croatian: “Aheront”
- Czech: “Acherón”
- Danish: “Acheron”
- Dutch: “Acheron”
- Esperanto: “Aĥerono”
- Estonian: “Acheron”
- Finnish: “Achérontas”
- Finnish: “Aheron”
- French: “Acheron”
- French: “Achéron”
- Galician: “Aqueronte”
- Galician: “Río Aqueronte”
- Georgian: “აქერონი”
- Georgian: “აქერონტი”
- German: “Acheron‐Flusstal”
- German: “Acheron”
- German: “Acherondas”
- Greek: “Achérontas Potamós”
- Greek: “Αχέροντας Ποταμός”
- Greek: “Αχέροντας”
- Greek: “Αχέρων”
- Greek: “Χαράδρα του Αχέροντα”
- Hebrew: “אכרון”
- Hungarian: “Akherón”
- Icelandic: “Akkeron”
- Indonesian: “Acheron”
- Indonesian: “Akheron”
- Irish: “Acheron”
- Italian: “Acheronte”
- Japanese: “アケローン”
- Japanese: “アケローン川”
- Japanese: “アケローン河”
- Japanese: “アケロン川”
- Javanese: “Akhéron”
- Korean: “아케론강”
- Latin: “Acheron”
- Lithuanian: “Acheronas”
- Macedonian: “Ахерон”
- Mingrelian: “აქერონი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Acheron”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Aqueront”
- Persian: “آخرون”
- Persian: “اخرون”
- Polish: “Acheron”
- Polish: “Acheront”
- Portuguese: “Acheron”
- Portuguese: “Aqueronte”
- Romanian: “Acheron”
- Romanian: “Aheron”
- Romanian: “Râul Aheron”
- Russian: “Ахерон”
- Russian: “Ахеронт”
- Russian: “Фанариотикос”
- Serbian: “Aheron”
- Serbian: “Αχέρων”
- Serbian: “Ахерон”
- Serbian: “Ахеронт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aheront”
- Slovak: “Acherón”
- Slovenian: “Aheron”
- Spanish: “Aquerón”
- Spanish: “Aqueronte”
- Swedish: “Acheron”
- Swedish: “Akeron”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำแอเคอรอน”
- Turkish: “Acheron”
- Turkish: “Aheron Nehri”
- Turkish: “Akheron”
- Ukrainian: “Ахерон”
- Ukrainian: “Ахеронт”
- Venetian: “Fiume Aqueronte”
- Welsh: “Afon Acheron”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Valanidhorakhi, Preveza and Mesopotamo.
Epirus: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Ioannina, Arta, Preveza, and Igoumenitsa.
Explore These Curated Destinations
Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
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 “Acheron Gorge”. Photo: Georg.kaldis, CC BY-SA 4.0.