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Markopoulo Oropou (Greek: Μαρκόπουλο Ωρωπού) is a community of the Greek prefecture of Attica. Markopoulo Oropou is linked with the road linking GR-1/E75 and Oropos and its beach fnas well as the roads to Kalamos and Malakasa. The area around Markopoulo are surrounded by olive trees, pasture farmlands, grasslands and are hilly, pine trees and mountains dominates southward, farmlands are in valley areas as well as to the northwen part. The South Euboic Gulf covers the north which offers a panoramic view of the island of Euboea as well as Eretria. Markopoulo Oropou is located about ENE of Athens, E of GR-1/E75 (Athens - Lamia - Thessaloniki) and north of Rafina.
The population between 1981 and 1991 was the community that saw huge population loss.
Businesses are the most popular industry in Markopoulo Oropou, agriculture dominates the central part and away from its beaches. Housing developments came in the 1990s but slowly boomed.
[edit] Subdivisions
- Nea Livisi
- Paralia Markopoulou
- Perivoli
Markopoulo Oropou has a school, a lyceum or a middle school, a gymnasia or a high school, banks, churches, a post office and a few squares (plateies).
[edit] Historical population
| Year |
Population |
Change |
Communal population |
Change |
Density |
| 1981 |
2,006 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| 1991 |
877 |
-1.119/-55.78% |
2,208 |
- |
95.3/km² |
| 2001 |
- |
- |
3,894 |
+1,686/+76.36% |
168.0/km² |
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