Its source is on the north-eastern slopes of Mount Panachaiko, near the village of Vounopirgos (Loubista).

The total length of the river is 22.8 kilometres (14.2 mi)[1] and it flows along the following places, from the source downstream: Damakini, Salmenikο, Kamares.

Close to the sources, the river has a yearly flow but during the summer months, the water is used for agriculture.

The river is mentioned by the ancient Greek geographer Pausanias in the seventh volume of his Description of Greece.

[2][3] In 1874 the researcher and chronicler Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria did a research trip by boat in the Gulf of Corinth and he wrote a detailed book with his observations for the landscape and the populated places of the northern Peloponnese.