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421:; otherwise, Route 20 does not approach it. The gorge is at the bottom of a valley flanked by Koufota, 880 m (2,890 ft), to the south and Papoura, 990 m (3,250 ft), to the north. Through the bottom of the gorge is only a hiking trail, considered dangerous, but 20A bypasses it, climbing in hairpin turns across the upper slopes of Koufota, to arrive at Thrypti plateau at the 722 m (2,369 ft) contour line, where the original Thrypti village is located (
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bay, cutting 90A, runs along the west side of the Kapsos ridge; i.e., it divides the mountain. South of Lastos it veers east to cut Spathi similarly on its upper north flank and also cuts the mountains on the north flank of the
Bebonas Valley. This border is the traditional line of demarcation for the two ranges; i.e., half of Kapsos is Thrypti, and the other half Ornon, etc.
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Route 90A encloses the north of Kapsos forming a big bend from
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Thrypti" from which the ranges were supposedly named. They don't exist and have no real coordinates. The custom perpetuates the convention practised by the ancient geographers of using oros ("mountain"), a singular, to denote a collective, the
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