PINIS RIVER

Modern Greek Pinis Potams, also called Peneus River, principal stream of Thessaly, Greece, rising in the ros (mountains) Lkmos of the Pindus Mountains just east of Mtsovon in the noms (department) of Trkala; it is navigable in its lower course. In prehistoric times the Pinis formed a great lake before it broke through the Vale of Tempe. It now flows 127 mi (205 km) through the mountains and plains of Thessaly, thrusting itself through the Vale of Tempe between the Olympus and Ossa massifs and debouching at the entrance to the Thermaks Klpos (gulf) of the western Aegean Sea. Entering the western Thessalian plain, it receives the Enipvs and immediately winds through the saddle of low hills between the Zarkou Mountains on the north and the Mavrovoni outliers that divide the Thessalian plain into two distinct parts. Other tributaries include the Lithaos and the Titarsios.