Kakkavos plantation is located in Mesokampos ( Messolonghi) about five kilometers away from the city.  It took it’s name from the medieval word of our language(Greek) "Kakkavos", as our ancestors used to call the partridge, the beautiful bird that abounded in the area until the beginning of last century.  It is an area of about 400 acres and stretches on the slopes and on the feet between the lower hills of the last mountains of the central part of Mount Arakynthos or Libra, location with wonderful views to the south. I has a great view which stretches from the green plain and the town of Messolonghi with the beautiful lagoon of Patras bay and Peloponnese and end up at the Ionian islands with Kefalonia and Zakynthos in a distance.  The plantation has its own water source (ampla) of drinking water springs in the ravine of the stream Kalamaki, like a well, from the same underground vein of water . Today only the source still holds water all year round.  Inside the property there are two hills, one anonymous, on which Anastasios K. Alexandropoulos (Sr.) built a farmhouse in about 1870,on the second part of it, which took its name from Kasidiaris, the former owner, and the Military rented part of it as an auxiliary firing range and they named it ‘turtle’ because of its shape.