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Let’s Observe

Greece’s Longest River and Biggest Forest

Haliacmon River

Haliacmon River is the longest river in

Greece with a length of almost 300

km. It goes from the Gramos

Mountains on the Albanian border

and ows through villages and

mountains to the Aegean Sea.

Haliacmon has many unique kinds of

sh that almost exist nowhere else.

Foloi Oak Forest

Other than the beaches and rivers of Haliacmon River in Greece

Greece, Foloi Forest is one of the

biggest and oldest self-planted oak

forests in Europe.

Foloi Forest is located in southwestern

Greece at an altitude of 688 m on the

Foloi Mountain.

The trees in the Foloi Forest range

from 15 to 20 m in height. The forest is

a protected area because it has trees

that are more than 200 years old.

Oak forest in Foloi, Greece

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