Kemer Dam is a dam in

Bozdoğan Bozdoğan is a small historic town and district of Aydın Province in the Aegean region of Turkey, from the city of Aydın. Bozdoğan is high on the side of Mount Madran, the source of the highly valued Pınar Madran mineral water, which is b ...

Aydın Aydın ( ''EYE-din''; ; formerly named ''Güzelhisar'', Ancient and Modern Greek: Τράλλεις /''Tralleis''/) is a city in and the seat of Aydın Province in Turkey's Aegean Region. The city is located at the heart of the lower valley of ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

, built between 1954 and 1958. The development was backed by the

Turkish State Hydraulic Works The State Hydraulic Works ( tr, Devlet Su İşleri) is a state agency, under the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Turkey, responsible for the utilization of all the country's water resources. The institution's four major functions are ener ...

. In 2016 the dam got privatized and in 2017 Aydın Metropolitan Municipality decided to open the doors of the

Arapapıştı Canyon Arapapıştı Canyon ( tr, Arapapıştı Kanyonu) is a canyon at Bozdoğan district of Aydın Province in western Turkey. It is a canyon formed by the Akçay River feeding Kemer Dam. The length of the canyon is 6 kilometres and the height is 380 ...

to tourists. The canyon is connected to the dam.

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State Hydraulic Works (Turkey) The State Hydraulic Works ( tr, Devlet Su İşleri) is a state agency, under the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Turkey, responsible for the utilization of all the country's water resources. The institution's four major functions are ener ...

, Retrieved December 16, 2009 Dams in Aydın Province Hydroelectric power stations in Turkey Dams completed in 1958 {{Turkey-powerstation-stub

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