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Turkey's Hamsilos ready for more visitors
Turkey's Hamsilos ready for more visitors
Hamsilos Nature Park in the northern Turkish province of Sinop has renewed its tourism infrastructure to fulfill the expectations of thousands who started to flock to the beauty of its drowned river valley. Click through for the story in photos...
Hamsilos is a "ria," which is described as a coastal inlet formed by the partial submergence of an unglaciated river valley. It is a drowned river valley that remains open to the sea.
This pattern is inherited from the dendritic drainage pattern of the flooded river valley. The drowning of river valleys along a stretch of coast and formation of rias results in an extremely irregular and indented coastline. Often, there are naturally-occurring islands, which are summits of partly submerged, preexisting hill peaks
Only 14 kilometers away from Sinop's city center, Hamsilos was declared in 2007 as the 22nd nature park in Turkey.
Sitting on an area of 679 decares, Hamsilos is home to 150 bird species, as well as a large number of endemic plants.
Local officials, who saw that Hamsilos started to attract some 500,000 tourists annually, have recently upgraded the park's infrastructure.
According to Nature Protection and National Parks Directorate official Hasan Başyiğit, various structures have been added to Hamsilos, including observation platforms and rain shelters.
"Nature lovers just adore Hamsilos," Başyiğit said,
Photos: Anadolu Agency
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