Apoplystra

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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: geological structure
  • Also known as: “Apoplystra Rock Formations”, “fold”, “Fold”, “folding (geology)”, “folds (geology)”, “Rethymno Apoplystra Rock Formations”, and “The Folding Rocks at Agios Pavlos”
  • Address: Agios Pavlos, Crete

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Agios Pavlos and Triopetra.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Village
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is a traditional village of about 450 people in the southern part of the , famous for the two Triopetra beaches. It is part of the municipality . is situated 7 km north of Apoplystra.

Apoplystra

Latitude
35.10184° or 35° 6′ 7″ north
Longitude
24.56242° or 24° 33′ 45″ east
Open location code
8G764H26+PX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 336131304
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q81659
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Apoplystra” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Geologiese plooiing”
  • Afrikaans: “Geologiese Plooiing”
  • Arabic: “طية”
  • Arabic: “طيه”
  • Aragonese: “Plego”
  • Armenian: “Իզոկլինալ ծալք”
  • Armenian: “Ծալքեր”
  • Asturian: “Plegamientu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Plikativ dislokasiyalar”
  • Basque: “Toles”
  • Basque: “Tolestura”
  • Belarusian: “зморшч”
  • Belarusian: “складка”
  • Bengali: “ভূ-ভাঁজ”
  • Bulgarian: “Гънка”
  • Bulgarian: “Гънки”
  • Catalan: “Plec”
  • Catalan: “Plegament”
  • Chinese: “摺曲作用”
  • Chinese: “褶皱”
  • Chinese: “褶皱山”
  • Chinese: “褶皱构造”
  • Chinese: “褶皱运动”
  • Chinese: “褶皺”
  • Czech: “Antiklinála”
  • Czech: “Synklinála”
  • Czech: “vrása”
  • Czech: “Vrása”
  • Dutch: “plooi”
  • Dutch: “Plooi”
  • Dutch: “plooiing”
  • Esperanto: “falto”
  • Estonian: “Kurd”
  • Estonian: “Kurrud”
  • Finnish: “Poimu (geologia)”
  • Finnish: “Poimu”
  • French: “pli géologique”
  • French: “pli”
  • French: “Pli”
  • Galician: “Pregamento”
  • Galician: “Prego”
  • Georgian: “დანაოჭება”
  • Georgian: “ნაოჭი”
  • German: “Apoplystra”
  • German: “Falte”
  • German: “Faltenachse”
  • German: “inkompetentes Gestein”
  • German: “kompetentes Gestein”
  • Greek: “Αποπλύστρα”
  • Greek: “Πτυχή”
  • Haitian: “Montay plwaye”
  • Hebrew: “קמט”
  • Hindi: “वलन”
  • Hindi: “सिलवटों(भूविज्ञान)”
  • Hungarian: “gyűrődés”
  • Hungarian: “Gyűrődés”
  • Indonesian: “Lipatan”
  • Irish: “filleadh”
  • Irish: “Filleadh”
  • Italian: “piega”
  • Italian: “Piega”
  • Japanese: “褶曲”
  • Japanese: “褶曲運動”
  • Kazakh: “Қатпарлар”
  • Korean: “습곡”
  • Macedonian: “Набор”
  • Malayalam: “ഭൂമടക്കുകൾ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “folding”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “folding”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Folding”
  • Norwegian: “Folding”
  • Oromo: “Dadacha’insa Lafaa”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਲਣ”
  • Persian: “چین”
  • Polish: “fałd”
  • Polish: “Fałd”
  • Polish: “fałdy”
  • Portuguese: “dobra geológica”
  • Portuguese: “Dobra geológica”
  • Romanian: “cută”
  • Romanian: “Cută”
  • Romanian: “cutare”
  • Russian: “веерообразные складки”
  • Russian: “складка горных пород”
  • Russian: “складчатая дислокация”
  • Russian: “Складчатая дислокация”
  • Russian: “складчатость горных пород”
  • Serbian: “nabor”
  • Serbian: “набор”
  • Serbian: “Набор”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nabor”
  • Slovak: “Vrása”
  • Slovenian: “guba”
  • Slovenian: “Guba”
  • Spanish: “plegamiento”
  • Spanish: “Plegamiento”
  • Spanish: “pliegue recumbente”
  • Spanish: “pliegue”
  • Spanish: “pliegues y plegamientos”
  • Swahili: “Mkunjo (jiolojia)”
  • Swahili: “Mkunjo”
  • Swedish: “veck”
  • Swedish: “Veckning”
  • Tamil: “மடிப்பு”
  • Tatar: “Җыерчык (геология)”
  • Tatar: “Җыерчык”
  • Thai: “Fold”
  • Thai: “ชั้นหินคดโค้ง”
  • Turkish: “Kıvrım”
  • Ukrainian: “складка”
  • Ukrainian: “Складки”
  • Vietnamese: “Nếp uốn”
  • Welsh: “plyg”
  • Yue Chinese: “褶皺”

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