| Mount Cilo | |
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 Mount Cilo | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 4,135 m (13,566 ft) |
| Coordinates | 37°30′N 43°58′E / 37.500°N 43.967°E / 37.500; 43.967 |
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| Location | Yüksekova, Hakkâri Province, Turkey |
| Parent range | East Taurus (Doğu Toros Dağları) |
Mount Cilo (Turkish: Cilo Dağı; Kurdish: Çiyayê Cîlo; Armenian: Ջողա լեռ) is the second highest mountain in Turkey after Greater Mount Ararat (Büyük Ağrı Dağı; 5,137 m (16,854 ft)). It is 4,135 m (13,566 ft) high on its highest summit Reşko, also known as Gelyaşin or Uludoruk, and lies in the Hakkâri Dağları/Mountains, located in the East Taurus (Tr.: "Doğu Toroslar"), in the district of Yüksekova of the Hakkâri Province in southeasternmost part of Turkey in East Anatolia region.
Description
The craggy massif Mount Cilo is 30 km (19 miles) 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 (4,116 m (13,504 ft)), is located in the immediate vicinity (4 km (2.5 miles) to its west). In 1984, the area was closed to civilians because of the presence and insurrection with occasional acts of terrorism by the separatist terror organization PKK. It was not until 2002 that a team of mountaineers was authorized to climb again the Cilo mountains.
See also
References
- The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia. University of Michigan p. 920
- Brockhaus, Enzyklopädie in 30 Bänden, Vol. 28. Mannheim 2006, p. 117, s.v. Türkei.
- www.tuerkei-kultur-info.de
- Hürriyet, 28. September 2002