Kairatos
river in Heraklion municipality, Greece
The Kairatos (Greek: Καίρατος, Latin: Caeratus) is a natural watercourse on the island of Crete in Greece. In the Minoan era, aqueducts diverted water to Kephala hill from spring water sources at Archanes, which springs are the headwaters of the Kairatos River; in fact, the Bronze Age palace of Knossos lay upon the gently sloping banks of the Kairatos. The Kairatos runs east of Knossos and flows into the Aegean Sea in the Katsampas area, 1.5 km east of the city center of Heraklion.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kairatos” as river in Heraklion municipality, Greece. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as river in Heraklion municipality, Greece. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6348251. Authority coordinates are 35.345, 25.153. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kairatos” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.