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Zacharo

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{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="float:right; empty-cells:show; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:0,5em; background:#FFDEAD;" ! colspan="2" | Statistics |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Prefectures of Greece Prefecture: || Ilia Prefecture Ilia |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Provinces of Greece Province: || Olympia Province |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top" | Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:||
37.482/37Â°28'57' N lat.
21.645/21Â°38'43' E long |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Area:
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kmÂ²

|---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Population: (2001)
- Total
- DensityÂ¹
- Rank||
-12,910
-/kmÂ²
|---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Communes: || 20 |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Elevation:
-lowest:
-centre:
-highest:||
sea level
5 m(center), 35 m, east
|---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | List of postal codes in Greece Postal code: || 270 54 |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Area codes in Greece Area/distance code: || 11-30-Greece dialing code 26250 26250-3
(030-2620-3) |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Municipal codes in Greece Municipal code: || 1710 |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | License plates in Greece Car designation: || HA |} '''Zacharo''' (Greek language Greek: Î–Î±Ï‡Î¬Ï?Ï‰), also '''Zaharo''' or '''Zakharo''' is a community and a municipality located in the southwestern part of the Ilia Prefecture in the middle of a highway named Greece Interstate 9 GR-9/E55 linking Pyrgos, Greece Pyrgos and Greece Interstate 9A GR-9A along with Kyparissia. Distance from Athens is 280 km (old: 320 km SW), about 30 km SE of Pyrgos and about 9 km S of Krestena, 13 km SW of Olympia, Greece Olympia, and about 30 km north of Kyparissia and NW of Kalamata. It is one of the fastest growing towns in Ilia and the commune population will reach the 7,000 mark. __NOTOC__

Nearest places (commune)
*Thermal Springs of Kaiafa (northwest)

Subdivisions:
*Agios Nikolaos (Ilia), Greece Agios Nikolaos *Kato Xirochori *Thermal Springs of Kaiafa

Communes:
*Agios Ilias (Zacharo), Greece Agios Ilias *Anilio (Ilia), Greece Anilio **Kotronaki **Bourboula *Arini **Kato Arini *Artemida (Ilia), Greece Artemida, formerly Koumouthekra *Chrysochori (Ilia), Greece Chrysochori **Palaiochori (Chrysochori), Greece Palaiochori *Giannitsochori *Kakovatos *Kalidona **Kampos (Kalidona), Greece Kampos **Kostomera, ghost town *Lepreo **Agrapidia **Drakos (Ilia), Greece Drakos **Panagies **Reveleika **Skoupa *Makistos *Milea (Ilia), Greece Milea *Minthi (commune) Minthi **Kotroni (Minthi), Greece Kotroni *Neochori (Zacharo), Greece Neochori *Prasidaki **Palio Prasidaki (pop: 1) **Trani Laka (pop: 8) *Rodina (Ilia), Greece Rodina *Smerna **Panagia (Smerna), Greece Panagia *Schinoi **Panorama (Schinoi), Greece Panorama *Taxiarches **Kato Taxiarches **Tholo **Longaki *Xirochori (Ilia), Greece Xirochori **Kotroni (Xirochori), Greece Kotroni **Marathos (Ilia), Greece Marathos **Neochori (Xirochori), Greece Neochori **Panagia (Xirochori), Greece Panagia *'''Zacharo'''

Historical population:
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" |----- bgcolor="#efefef" ! Year !! Communal population !! Change !! Municipal population !! Change |----- | 1981 || 2,812 || - || - || - |----- | 1991 || 4,318 || 1,506/53.56% || 11,041 || - |----- | 2001 || 6,319, 5,407 (Zacharo) || 1,089/25.22%? || 12,910 || 1,869/16.3% |} The community has a school, a kindergarten school, a lyceum, a gymnasium, a church, a post office, a police station, banks and a (''plateia'') with a statue and a tree which runs near the main highway. The village lies next to the Ionian Sea and has a beach about 500 m west of the centre and a train station linking the railway line of Pyrgos - Kyparissia - Allagi about 100 m west of the main highway of Pyrgos to Kyparissia and has some trees. It also has a traffic light on the highway. Residential houses are in the west and east. The mountains are founded and surrounding almost Zacharo while narrow fertile lands dominate the south with a length of about 1 km. Pine forests are in the northwest while grasses and bush dominates the mountains elsewhere. Wetlands used to dominate the western part. Kaiafa lake is founded to its northwest where its most beatuiful beaches and spas are founded.

External links:
*http://www.zacharo.com (in Greek) *http://www.syllogoszachareon.gr (in Greek)
- http://www.hellas.teipir.gr/prefectures/greek/Hleias/Zaxaro.htm (in Greek)
- http://www.hri.org/icp/justice/zacharo.html
- Mapquest - Zacharo, street map now available *Coordinates: {{coor dms|37|28|57|N|21|38|43|E|region:GR}}
- traveljournals.net - Zacharo
- GTP - Zacharo
- GTP - Municipality of Zacharo
- Indexmundi - Zacharo

	'''North:''' Krestena Skillountas
'''West:''' Ionian Sea	'''Zacharo'''	'''East:''' Figaleia
	'''South:''' Aetos (Ilia), Greece Aetos

See also:
*Communities of Ilia {{Ilia}} Category:Ilia Category:Cities and towns in Greece

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