Ierapetra

Ierapetra is a municipality and a town in the east of the Greek island of Crete, in the prefecture of Lasithi.

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The municipaliy has an area of 394.774 square kilometres and a population of 21,025 (2001). The municipality consists of the town of Ierapetra, several villages and hamlets and the island of Chrissi.

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The area's main economic activities are agriculture in the winter and tourism in the summer. The agricultural production can be divided into two main parts. Whereas olive oil has been produced all over the municipality at least since Minoan times, for the last thirty years large quantities of fruit and vegetables have also been exported. These are grown in plastic greenhouses, which spread over an area of 13,000,000 square meters between the town of Ierapetra and Nea Myrtos. Mainly because of the greenhouse production the inhabitants of Ierapetra are on average the richest on Crete.

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Crete: Crete, sometimes spelled Krete (Greek Κρήτη / Kriti; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located at approximately ....

Lasithi: Lasithi (Greek: ??????) is a prefecture of Greece on the island of Crete. It lies east of the prefecture of Heraklion. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, the other major tows are Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli. The mountains includes the Dikte to the west and the Sitia mountains to the east....