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Lefká Mountains

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Lefká Mountains, highest and most precipitous massif in western Crete (Modern Greek: Kríti), located a few miles south of the Cretan capital, Chaniá, in the nomós (department) of Chaniá, Greece. The limestone peaks have been hollowed out by erosion into high plains such as the Omalós (1,650–3,300 ft [500–1,000 m]), which gives access from the village of Lákkoi to the Samaria gorge, 11 mi (18 km) long and 1,000 ft deep, the longest mountain gorge in Europe, which opens out to the Mediterranean Sea on Crete’s southwest coast in the town of Ayía Roumeli. Bearing a stream during the wet ...(100 of 243 words)

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