Faraklata () is a village and a community in the municipal unit of

Argostoli Argostoli (, Katharevousa: ) is a town and a municipality on the island of Kefalonia, Ionian Islands (region), Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2019 local government reform it is one of the three municipalities on the island. It has been the capi ...

Cephalonia Kefalonia or Cephalonia (), formerly also known as Kefallinia or Kephallonia (), is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece and the 6th-largest island in Greece after Crete, Euboea, Lesbos, Rhodes and Chios. It is also a separate regio ...

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. It is situated on a mountain slope above the eastern shore of the

Gulf of Argostoli The Gulf of Argostoli () is a gulf of the Ionian Sea on the island of Cephalonia, western Greece. It separates the Paliki peninsula from mainland Cephalonia, and opens toward the Ionian Sea in the south. The gulf is long (north to south) and wide ...

, at about 220 m elevation. Faraklata is 2 km south of

Dilinata Dilinata () is a village in the municipal unit of Argostoli, Cephalonia, Greece. It is situated on a mountain slope, at 400 m elevation. It is 2 km east of Davgata, 2 km north of Faraklata Faraklata () is a village and a community in th ...

, 4 km northeast of Argostoli and 7 km northwest of

Valsamata Valsamata () is a village in the municipal unit of Omala on the island of Kefalonia, Greece. It is located 9 km east of Argostoli and 17 km west of Poros Poros (; ) is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf ...

. The community consists of the villages Faraklata, Razata, Drapano and Prokopata. There is a small cave east of the village. Faraklata suffered great damage from the

1953 Ionian earthquake The 1953 Ionian earthquake (also known as the Great Kefalonia earthquake) struck the southern Ionian Islands in Greece on August 12. In mid-August, there were over 113 recorded earthquakes in the region between Kefalonia and Zakynthos, and the mo ...

Historical population

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