The great midland plain (Mesariá) of Cyprus opens eastward onto a wide bay, between the long rugged Karpass promontory which shelters it on the north, and the lower and less prominent headland of Cavo Greco terminating the rolling plateau of recent limestone which divides the Mesariá from the bay of Larnaca. But the plain does not open freely onto Famagusta bay. As the Pidias river approaches the coast, its flood plain is confined between spurs and outliers of the southern upland, on which Famagusta and its modern sequel Varósha stand, and a wider plateau, roughly triangular, between the sea front south of Trikomo, by the middle course of the Kháranka (so named in the Trigonometrical Survey of Cyprus, but the word is probably Pháranga (‘ravine’) which is followed by the road from Lefkóniko to Trikomo, and by the Gephyria tributary of the Pidias which rises in the North Range, and crosses that road about two miles east of Levkóniko (p. 54–5 above), to join the main stream west of Styllos village about five miles from its mouth.