Acheron

Summary

Acheron is a river^[1]. Acheron ranks in the top 0.23% of river entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (759 views/month, #31 of 13,643).^[2]

Key Facts

• Acheron is located in Parga Municipality^[3].
• Acheron is in the country of Greece^[4].
• Acheron's image is recorded as Acheron river 2.jpg^[5].
• Acheron's instance of is recorded as river^[6].
• Acheron's Commons category is recorded as Acheron^[7].
• Acheron's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 11241309^[8].
• Acheron's mouth of the watercourse is recorded as Ionian Sea^[9].
• Acheron's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 39.236111111111, 'lon': 20.476111111111}^[10].
• Acheron's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 39.472, 'lon': 20.6775}^[11].
• Acheron's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 39.2363, 'lon': 20.4757}^[12].
• Acheron's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0k7sx^[13].
• Acheron's located in/on physical feature is recorded as Epirus^[14].
• Acheron's page banner is recorded as Acheron Banner.jpg^[15].
• Acheron's tributary is recorded as Cocytus^[16].
• Acheron's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0004592^[17].
• Acheron's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[18].
• Acheron's described by source is recorded as Literary Encyclopedia 1929—1939^[19].
• Acheron's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa^[20].
• Acheron's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon^[21].
• Acheron's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia^[22].
• Acheron's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[23].
• Acheron's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[24].
• Acheron's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana^[25].
• Acheron's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work^[26].
• Acheron's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[27].

Body

Geography

Acheron is in the country of Greece^[4]. Acheron is located in Parga Municipality^[3].

Physical Characteristics

Acheron's elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+11'}^[28]. Acheron's length is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+58'}^[29].

Designation and Status

Acheron's instance of is recorded as river^[6].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Acheron include Acherontia atropos^[30], a taxon^[31]; Nekromanteion of Acheron^[32], a Necromanteion^[33], in Greece^[34]; and Acheron^[35], a mythical river^[36], in Greece^[37].

Why It Matters

Acheron ranks in the top 0.23% of river entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (759 views/month, #31 of 13,643).^[2] Acheron has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[38] Acheron is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[39]

Entities named for Acheron include Acherontia atropos^[30], a taxon^[31]; Nekromanteion of Acheron^[32], a Necromanteion^[33], in Greece^[34]; and Acheron^[35], a mythical river^[36], in Greece^[37].