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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2013
The valley is 12 km in length and is divided by a watershed at 550 m. from basins draining northwards to the Mesara Plain. The study area forms the southernmost part of the catchment, draining south, by the A. Kyriaki River, to the Libyan Sea. The river and several of its tributaries are ephemeral (Fig. 2).
It is evident that the geology of the area dictates the shape of the land, and in the past, as now, controlled the quantity of flat land available for settlement and cultivation.
3 Potential evaporation occurs from a free water surface, such as a lake.
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12 The location of the source found by Branigan is marked on the map, FIG. 34; for Χάρκο Κεφάλα, see Faure RA (1966) 1,54,
