Potamia, Arcadia

Potamia (Greek: Ποταμιά meaning rivers), also with the second a accented is a Greek village in the Arcadia prefecture located 4 km south of Leontari around 14 km southeast of Megalopoli, 11 km southeast from the nearest interchange with the GR-7/E65 (Kalamata - Megalopoli - Tripoli), 64 km from Kalamata, about 49 km southwest of Tripoli and northwest of Sparta. Potamia is in the municipality of Falaisia. Potamia is connected with the road connecting Leontari and Dyrrachi, it also has roads to Paradeisia and Tourkoleka as well as the Oria Castle. Potamia had a 2001 population of 100 for the village.

Nearest places

*Leontari, northeast
*Falaisia, east
*Kampochori, south-southeast
*Ellinitsa, west

Geography

Potamia is situated in the Alfeios Valley and are made up of forests and farmlands as well. The mountains cover the eastern and the western portions and are made up of rocks with grasslands and bushes along with a couple of forests and grasses and bushes around the areas. Its main production are olives, citrus, fruits, vegetables and other crops, several common crops are rarely common. Its panorama includes the mountains around the area including the western, the northern, the eastern and the southern parts.

Its residential houses and buildings are within the main road and it is about 200 m long. Much of the houses were stone built until the 1960s. Electricity arrived in the same year. Vehicles arrived in the 1970s, the pavement of the main road and television arrived in the 1980s and computer and internet are rarely known in the beginning of the 21st century and up to date technology are not seen.

Population

History

The village used to have a large population before the beginning of the 20th century. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, the population began to decline as residents moved to larger towns and cities and outside of Greece. The population has been declining since.

Festivities

Potamis helds every year the Parraris with folklore and cultural stuff from August 18 until 19 that began in 2001.

Other

Potamia has a church, and a square ("plateia"), its nearest school and lyceum (middle school) and gymnasium (secondary school) are now in Megalopoli since 2005.

External links

* [http://arcadia.ceid.upatras.gr/arkadia/places/potamia.htm History and Information about Potamia]
* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=8888 Potamia GTP Travel Pages]
*Map and aerial photos:
**Street map information from: [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=37.3095&longitude=22.1545&zoom=6 Mapquest] , [http://local.live.com/map.aspx?&lats1=37.368&longs=22.1545&alts1=35 LiveLocal] or [http://maps.google.com/maps?||=37.368,22.1545 Google] or [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?lat=37.368&lon=22.1545&mag=2 Yahoo! Maps]
**Satellite
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.368,22.545&spn=0.11,0.18&t=k Google] or [http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?cp=37.368|22.1545&style=h&lvl=15&v=1 Microsoft Virtual Earth] - image now available
*Coordinates: coord|37|18|30|N|22|9|15|E|type:city(29)_region:GR

ee also

*List of settlements in the Arcadia prefecture