Tripoli is a city in the central part of the Peloponnese, in Greece. It is the capital of the Peloponnese region as well as of the regional unit of Arcadia. The homonymous municipality had 44,165 inhabitants in 2021.
Another basin in Tripolis municipal unit Levidi (basin of the communities “Vlacherna/Hotoussa/Kandila”), ca. 25 km north of Tripoli
Pond Taka, floods around and ponors of former temporary Lake Taka. Tripoli in the far back
Areos Square with the Court House, designed by Ernst Ziller
Argon Pedion is the geological name of a "closed karst basin" in the Arcadian highlands in the Peloponnese peninsula of southern Greece. The first known appearance of this name was in a publication by the ancient geographer Pausanias. He called it untilled plain, because the grassland and acres may be flooded beyond the time when annual vegetation starts. When the winter rains were very heavy, floods can even turn the plain into a temporary lake. Intensive karst formation prevents the formation of a permanent lake. In rare cases, even today, modern technologies can not prevent flooding.
The Polje Argon Pedion. Drainage only by ponor(s)
Temporary lake in Argon Pedion, A7 motorway. Ditch to ponor (10 tree tops in water, front left)
Totally green in springtime