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Kameni Chora (
Greek: Καμένη Χώρα, meaning
town which the name is derived from a nearby volcano of Methana) is a village located in the northwestern part of the
Methana peninsula. It is located in a valley northwest of the volcanic summit. It is located W of
Methana, E of
Ligouri, NE of
Kranidi, ENE of
Ermioni, NW of
Troizina and W of
Poros.
Geography
- Location:
- Longitude: 21.335 (21°20'4') E
- Latitude: 38.614 (38°36'55') N
- Population: 45 (1991)
- Postal code: 180 30
- Elevation:
- lowest: around 200 to 250 m
- centre: around 300 to 350 m
- highest: about 412 m
- Dialing code: +11+30-22980 (030-22980)
Kameni Chori has a small school, a chapel of Agios Sotirios and a square (
plateia). Residential houses and within the low valley in the west-central part and has grasses with a few trees to its east. The rocky landscape and bushes are to the west and east. Much of the area is bushy. The forests are founded within the valleys and around the old faded crater rim. It is the place where the last eruption happened in around
276 BC at the elevation of 412 to 417 m and another in
1700. Much of the population is made up of farmers and is agriculturally known. The main products are
olive,
almonds and
wine. Tourism is also becoming popular especially at the tavern bar
Ifaisteio or
Ifestio on a road linking to Cape
Kalo Koumbaro.
The volcano of the mountain top includes some red fractured rocks at the steep of the lava dome. Tracts of trees are grown around the dormant volcano. The name of the volcano is
Malia Vgethi (Μάλια Βγέθι) which the name comes from
Albanian. The elevation is 680 m and is located next to the tallest mountain in the peninsula. It is in the foot of Kameni Choria. The volcano has a roughly arranged crater in which the northern, eastern and southern part are deforested. But the southern part has some forests and the western part has a mountain top. It is a historically active volcano. It was active beginning about 150,000 years ago and consists of
andesite and
dacite. It is difficult to climb and is the most impressive volcanoes in the
Saronic Gulf and one of over 30 in Methana. It is among the objects of the Troezen area and Methana along with the landscape. There is a gravel road which is approximately 45 m to the crater. The volcano was investigated and studied by geologists like Washington, Foque,
R. V. Leyden and
V. Dietrich.
The extinct volcano includes the panorama of the southern half of the peninsula along with parts of the northeastern
Peloponnese, western and southwestern
Attica including
Kakia Skala, parts of
Aegina and the islands of
Angistri,
Kyra and a smaller one further north and the Saronic Gulf.
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