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Pateras (mountain)
Pateras
is a mountain of
West Attica
,
Greece
, with an elevation of 1,131 meters. Its highest peak is named Leontari. It is situated between the plain of
Eleusis
(
Thriasian Plain
) and the plain of
Megara
, and stretches between the
Gulf of Corinth
at
Aigosthena
and the
Saronic Gulf
near Eleusis. It is separated from its northern neighbour
Cithaeron
by the plain of
Vilia
. The mountain is covered with woods with
Aleppo pine
and
Mediterranean maquis
. In the tops of the mountain, that belong to a
CORINE
biotope, there are
firs
, of species
Abies cephalonica
.
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