Melissani Cave
Melissani Cave (Greek: Μελισσάνη) or Melissani Lake, also Melisani is a cave located on the island of Kefalonia, northwest of Sami, about 5 km SE of Agia Efthymia, NE of Argostoli and NW of Poros. The Ionian Sea lies to the east with the Strait of Ithaca. Forests surrounds the cave and the mountain slope is to the west. Near the cave is the entry to the cave with parking lots and is passed almost in the middle of the main road linking Sami and Agia Efimia especially to the northern part of the island.
Throughout Traditional mythology, Melissani has been your Give from the Nymphs. It includes a lake ornamented with bushes in addition to do, and it is located east from the foothills regarding Evmorfia in addition to Agia Dynati. Travel is usually popular.
This lake's base is usually insured with gemstones. Plants grow in the beginning from the cave. Large from the gemstone at the beginning is usually stucco in order to honey-like dark brown.
This cave has been rediscovered within 1951 by means of Giannis Petrocheilos.
Hydrogeology:
Melissani cave is usually a normal element regarding karst natural environment within resort carbonate aquifer. It varieties a type of "cenote" seeing that defined inside the Yucatán peninsula (Mexico). This vertical base offers having access to water table (where you're able to do a new rounded trip on a small fishing boat! ). This kind of groundwater is usually brackish, mixing up among clean drinking water refresh national in addition to sea drinking water intruded comprehensive inside the island. Massive karst conduits happen to be looked into by means of speleo-divers. This bay regarding Sami offers numerous cenotes, with outstanding shafts, that have been inventoried within a GIS Data bank [see external links]. This brackish drinking water streaming from the cenotes outflows across the sea banks, creating brackish resort in addition to boat spgs. This groundwater regarding Melissani cave outflows in the "Fridi" beach front. This kind of brackish drinking water is usually component of a new popular hydrogeological phenomena: seawater is usually drew inside the west section of the island regarding Kefalonia, near Argotoli, in addition to expelled inside the bay regarding Sami. [1] Throughout Argostoli, your seawater passes in sinkholes, called katavothres, exactly where drinking water work spins.
Throughout Traditional mythology, Melissani has been your Give from the Nymphs. It includes a lake ornamented with bushes in addition to do, and it is located east from the foothills regarding Evmorfia in addition to Agia Dynati. Travel is usually popular.
This lake's base is usually insured with gemstones. Plants grow in the beginning from the cave. Large from the gemstone at the beginning is usually stucco in order to honey-like dark brown.
This cave has been rediscovered within 1951 by means of Giannis Petrocheilos.
Hydrogeology:
Melissani cave is usually a normal element regarding karst natural environment within resort carbonate aquifer. It varieties a type of "cenote" seeing that defined inside the Yucatán peninsula (Mexico). This vertical base offers having access to water table (where you're able to do a new rounded trip on a small fishing boat! ). This kind of groundwater is usually brackish, mixing up among clean drinking water refresh national in addition to sea drinking water intruded comprehensive inside the island. Massive karst conduits happen to be looked into by means of speleo-divers. This bay regarding Sami offers numerous cenotes, with outstanding shafts, that have been inventoried within a GIS Data bank [see external links]. This brackish drinking water streaming from the cenotes outflows across the sea banks, creating brackish resort in addition to boat spgs. This groundwater regarding Melissani cave outflows in the "Fridi" beach front. This kind of brackish drinking water is usually component of a new popular hydrogeological phenomena: seawater is usually drew inside the west section of the island regarding Kefalonia, near Argotoli, in addition to expelled inside the bay regarding Sami. [1] Throughout Argostoli, your seawater passes in sinkholes, called katavothres, exactly where drinking water work spins.
