Mount Cilo (; ; ) is the second highest mountain in
Turkey
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after Greater
Mount Ararat
Mount Ararat, also known as Masis or Mount Ağrı, is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in Eastern Turkey, easternmost Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the highest p ...
(Büyük Ağrı Dağı; ). It is high on its highest summit
Reşko, also known as Gelyaşin or
Uludoruk, and lies in the Hakkâri Dağları/Mountains, located in the East
Taurus
Taurus is Latin for 'bull' and may refer to:
* Taurus (astrology), the astrological sign
** Vṛṣabha, in vedic astrology
* Taurus (constellation), one of the constellations of the zodiac
* Taurus (mythology), one of two Greek mythological ch ...
(Tr.: "Doğu Toroslar"), in the
district of Yüksekova of the
Hakkâri Province
Hakkâri Province (, ; ), is a province in the southeast of Turkey. The administrative centre is the city of Hakkâri. Its area is 7,095 km2, and its population is 287,625 (2023). The current Governor is Ali Çelik. The province encompasses ...
in southeasternmost part of Turkey in East Anatolia region.
Description
The craggy massif Mount Cilo is long and builds the western part of the
Hakkari Cilo-Sat Mountains National Park which was established in 2020. The mountains are characterized by an extremely rugged topography with high, pointed summits, sharp and jagged ridges, very steep or even occasionally vertical rock (primarily limestone) cliffs/walls and deep gorges and a few glaciers which are losing their volume and retreating since last decades due to global warming! The massif's second (and Turkey's third at all) highest peak Suppa Durek, a.k.a. Erinç Tepe (), is located in the immediate vicinity ({{convert, 4, km, mile, abbr=on to its west).
The mountain and its surroundings were declared a prohibited area due to the war that the Turkish army waged with the Kurds for years. It was not until 2002 that a team of mountaineers was authorized to climb again the Cilo mountains.
Hürriyet, 28. September 2002
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See also
* Ark of Nuh or Noah
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* List of mountains in Turkey
Mountain ranges of Turkey
* Armenian Highlands range across Eastern Turkey including Agri (Ararat)
* Taurus Mountains range across southern Turkey between the coast and the Anatolian Plateau. Subranges include
**Akdağlar (or White Mountain ...
** Mount Judi
Mount Judi (; ; ; ) is a mountain in Turkey. It was considered in antiquity to be Noah's or "Place of Descent", the location where the Ark came to rest after the Great Flood, according to very early Christian and Islamic traditions (the latter ...
References
External links
Sketch of the range
Landforms of Hakkâri Province
Important Bird Areas of Turkey
Mountains of the Armenian Highlands
Cilo
Taurus Mountains
Zagros Mountains