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Angitis

Coordinates: 40°54′08″N 23°48′38″E / 40.9021°N 23.8105°E / 40.9021; 23.8105
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Angitis
The old bridge of Angitis River in Angista Rail Station (village in Nea Zichni Municipality)
Native nameΑγγίτης (Greek)
Location
CountryGreece
Physical characteristics
Mouth 
 • location
Strymonas
 • coordinates
40°54′08″N 23°48′38″E / 40.9021°N 23.8105°E / 40.9021; 23.8105
Basin features
ProgressionStrumaAegean Sea

The Angitis (Greek: Αγγίτης), also known as Angista (Bulgarian: Драматица; Dramatitsa), is a river in Northern Greece. It is 75 km (47 mi) long. It is an important tributary of the Strymonas.[1]

Its source is in the Falakro mountains, in the regional unit of Drama, near the town of Prosotsani. It flows south until Fotolivos, where it turns west and enters the Serres regional unit. It flows into the Strymonas near Tragilos.

The river is the setting for a number of extreme sports, including rafting.[2] The Angitis cave is 21 km (13 mi) long. A short distance from the cave is the gorge of the Angitis, 15 km (9.3 mi) in length with a depth that reaches 100 m (330 ft) down to the river bed.



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  1. ^ *Natural Heritage from East to West, Niki Evelpidou, Tomás de Figueiredo, Francesco Mauro, Springer, 2009, ISBN 3-642-01576-X, pp. 51-57.
    • [1] Archived 2017-04-24 at the Wayback Machine D. C. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia during the Antiquity (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 19-20. ISBN 960-7265-16-5
  2. ^ "Rafting in river Aggitis". Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2011.