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The Titarisios older form: Xerias (Greek: Ξεριάς) is one of the major rivers in Thessaly
Thessaly
Thessaly is a traditional geographical region and an administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, and appears thus in Homer's Odyssey....

 and is also one of the major tributaries of the Pineios
Pineios River (Thessaly)
The Pineiós is a river in Thessaly, Greece.The river is named after the god Peneus and was known for most of the 11th century as the Salambria. It flows from the Pindus mountains and empties into the Aegean Sea, northeast of Vale of Tempe, near Stomio. It creates a large delta, well-known for its...

. The river begins at the western part of Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, about 100 kilometres away from Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city. Mount Olympus has 52 peaks. The highest peak Mytikas, meaning "nose", rises to 2,917 metres...

 and flows west, then southwest and merges with the Pineios. The tributary is at 70 m above sea level and its long length is only flooded.

The main physiognomic units of the straw community are mainly the Phragmitis australis as well as the maple, the willow and birch trees. Together with the taxonomy type system of moisture of the Treaty of Ramsar in which it was signed in Montreux
Montreux
Montreux is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.It is located on Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps and has a population, , of and nearly 90,000 in the agglomeration.- History :...

 in 1999, the Titarisios river is in the category of international protection and characterizes as a river with continuous flows, along with the information in whjich continues after the exitins from the white rapids, it does not have durable flows. The today's studies of the river are the irrigation in which is large with lowering individually due to the large decline of in recent years. In the moisture, it has made drastic changes.

The watershed of Titarisios includes the inner aggravation from the water flows. Characteristic paradigm have unexamined areas of flows from the villages of Rodias, Vryotopos and Deleri. Around 3 km from Argyroupoli is Lake Mati Tyrnavou. Mati is today the only natural lake in Thessaly and with a small area (250 ha) it had been rarely thrathened by human development with and has an ecosystem with rich plants and other species.

Plants

In the area features plants in which includes bamboo sticks including the Arundo domax, the Phragmites communis, Jungus maritimus, Salicornia herbacea, Chenopodium heinricus, Salsoa kali, Amaranthus reteoflexus and Portulaca oleracea. It has trees including popular (Populus nigra), maple
Maple
Acer is a genus of trees or shrubs commonly known as maple.Maples are variously classified in a family of their own, the Aceraceae, or together with the Hippocastanaceae included in the family Sapindaceae. Modern classifications, including the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system, favour inclusion in...

 (Platanus orientalis
Platanus orientalis
Platanus orientalis, or the Oriental plane, is a large, deciduous tree of the Platanaceae family, known for its longevity and spreading crown. The species name derives from its historical distribution eastward from the Balkans, where it was recognized in ancient Greek history and literature....

, birch
Birch
Birch is a tree or shrub of the genus Betula , in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. The Betula genus contains 30–60 known taxa...

 (Populus alba), elm
Elm
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus in the plant family Ulmaceae. The dozens of species are found in temperate and tropical-montane regions of North America and Eurasia, ranging southward into Indonesia. Elms are components of many kinds of natural forests...

 (Ulmus campestris and white willow
White Willow
Salix alba is a species of willow native to Europe and western and central Asia. The name derives from the white tone to the undersides of the leaves....

 (Salis alba).

Fishes

With all of its administration at EKVY and fishing in the area, in the sweetest water of the Titarisios it has 37 species of fish, it includes another 11 species. Titarisios with the location in which it brings together with the Pineios river into the sea, functions as one many rich feeding system in which brings in lots of fish. Species includes Acipenser studio, Alosa fallax nilotica, Nemacheilus barbatulus and Sabanejewia aurata balcanica.
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