Arkalochori
Arkalochori (Greek: Αρκαλοχώρι) is a town and a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Minoa Pediada, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 237.589 km2 (91.734 sq mi).
Arkalochori
Αρκαλοχώρι | |
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Municipal unit | |
View from the south | |
Arkalochori Location within the regional unit | |
| Coordinates: 35°08′39″N 25°15′38″E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Crete |
| Regional unit | Heraklion |
| Municipality | Minoa Pediada |
| Area | |
| • Municipal unit | 237.6 km2 (91.7 sq mi) |
| Population (2021) | |
| • Municipal unit | 8,547 |
| • Municipal unit density | 36/km2 (93/sq mi) |
| • Community | 3,927 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Website | http://www.arkalochori.gr |
The town lies on the western edge of the Minoa Pediada plain, west of the Lasithi plateau, in central Crete. It contains the archaeological site of a Minoan sacred cave. The sacred cave was used from the third millennium to ca 1450 BCE, when the natural ceiling collapsed, fortuitously protecting some of the votive deposits there.
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