Global InformationTymphe information
| Tymphe | |
|---|---|
| Τύμφη | |
 View of the west face of Mount Tymphe during summer | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 2,497 m (8,192 ft)[1] |
| Prominence | 1,266 m (4,154 ft)[2] |
| Coordinates | 39°58′54″N 20°48′54″E / 39.98167°N 20.81500°E[3] |
| Geography | |
  Tymphe Location within Epirus region, Greece | |
| Location | Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece |
| Parent range | Pindus |
| Topo map | HMGS Tsepelovo; Anávasi Topo 50 Pindus Zagori |
| Geology | |
| Age of rock | Palaeocene-Eocene |
| Mountain type | Fold mountain |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | unknown; first recorded climbing: 1956 |
| Easiest route | walk |
Tymphe (in Latin and English usage) or Tymfi (in the Greek government's preferred transliteration), Timfi, also Tymphi (Greek: Τύμφη, [ˈtimfi]) is a mountain in the northern Pindus mountain range, in northwestern Greece. It is part of the regional unit of Ioannina and lies in the region of Zagori, just a few metres south of the 40° parallel. Tymphe forms a massif with its highest peak, Gamila, at 2,497 m (8,192 ft).
The massif of Tymphe includes in its southern part the Vikos Gorge, while they both form part of the Vikos–Aoös National Park which accepts over 100,000 visitors per year.[4] The former municipality of Tymfi owed its name to the mountain.
- ^ Salmon, Tim; Cullen, Michael (2006). The Mountains of Greece: Trekking in the Pindhos Mountains (2nd ed.). Cicerone. p. 209. ISBN 978-1-85284-440-0.
- ^ Prominence is calculated from Petter Bjørstad's site, after correcting the height of Gamila to 2497m instead of the 2481m erroneously mentioned in the site
- ^ Data from Geographic.org
- ^ Papadopoulou 2008, p. 20