Achelo'us, now called Aspropot'amo, the largest river in Northern Greece, rises in Mount Pindus, flows south and south-west, dividing in its lower course Ætolia from Acarnania, and falls into the Ionian Sea opposite Cephalonia. The alluvial deposits at its mouth are very extensive. In Greek mythology, the god of this river was the oldest of the river gods, and was the son of Oceanus and Tethys.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 34
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