Lygkos or Ligkos is a mountain in the eastern Ioannina

Ioannina Prefecture

Ioannina is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Epirus region. Its capital is the city of Ioannina. It is the largest regional unit in Epirus, and one of the largest regional units of Greece.-Geography:...

 and the western Grevena

Grevena Prefecture

Grevena is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of West Macedonia. Its capital is the town of Grevena.-Geography:Grevena borders the regional units of Ioannina to the west, Kastoria to the northwest, Kozani to the north and east, Larissa to the southeast and Trikala to...

 prefecture

Prefectures of Greece

During the first administrative division of independent Greece in 1833–1836 and then again from 1845 until their abolition with the Kallikratis reform in 2010, the prefectures were the country's main administrative unit...

s in northwestern Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. The mountain is a part of the Pindus

Pindus

The Pindus mountain range is located in northern Greece and southern Albania. It is roughly 160 km long, with a maximum elevation of 2637 m . Because it runs along the border of Thessaly and Epirus, the Pindus range is often called the "spine of Greece"...

 mountain range. Its maximum elevation is 2,249 m. Its length is approximately 20 to 30 km from north to south and its width is approximately 15 to 20 km from north to south. The Aoos river flows to the west and another to the east.

Nearest places

• Samarina
  Samarina
  Samarina is a village and a former municipality in Grevena peripheral unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Grevena, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located on an eastern spur of Mount Smolikas, the highest of the Pindus range...
  
  , north
• Filimpatsi, north-northeast
• Smiza, northeast
• Perivolia, east
• Vovoussa, southwest
• Laisto, west
• Dratisto, west-northwest

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Forests dominate the low lying areas of the mountain and contains pine

Pine

Pines are trees in the genus Pinus ,in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species.-Etymology:...

 and spruce

Spruce

A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea , a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the Family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal regions of the earth. Spruces are large trees, from tall when mature, and can be distinguished by their whorled branches and conical...

 trees, the valley areas, grasslands, bushes and unvegetated portions dominate the higher elevations. The area around the mountain contains villages and forest roads as well as hiking trails.

Panorama

Its panorama includes the mountains to the north, the Aliakmon valley to the east, the Chasia

Chasia

Chasia is a mountain in the southern Grevena Prefecture in Greece.Chasia, also Chassia, Hasia or Hassia may also refer to:*Chasia, Grevena, a municipality in the Grevena prefecture, Greece...

 mountains to the southeast, the Mitsikeli

Mitsikeli

Mitsikeli is a mountain range in the central part of the Pindus mountains, in Epirus, Greece. The mountain is located northeast of Ioannina and Lake Ioannina. Its highest elevation is 1,810 m....

 to the southwest, the Tymfi

Tymfi

Tymfi or Mt Tymphe, Timfi, also Tymphi is a mountain in the northern Pindus mountain range, northwestern Greece. It is part of the regional unit of Ioannina and lies in the region of Zagori, just a few meters south of the 40° parallel...

 mountains to the west and the Smolikas

Smolikas

Mount Smolikas , also with the o accented , at a height of 2,637 metres above sea level, is the second highest mountain in Greece, after Mount Olympus, and the highest of the Pindus Mountains. The mountain is formed in ophiolite rocks. During the Pleistocene the northern and eastern cirques and...

to the northwest.