Once an important colony of Numenor in the Inner Sea, the land of Anarikê could be divided into three major areas - the coastal lands south of Bulchyades, the Ered Harmal, and the eastern lands stretching to Codya, which were heavily forested. The river Kriis, also named "Gold Shining River" was the clear frontier between the three different regions (for both geographic and historical reasons having to do with the successive migrations and invasions throughout the Second Age). Olyas Kriis was a semi-arid peninsula located west of the southern reaches of the Ered Harmal. It stretched south from the Endor mainland, about two hundred miles out into the Bay of Ormal. Dry hills dominated its central and southern quarters, while forests lay along its eastern border. Kythor (El. "River Coast Land