Kaçkar Dağı

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Kaçkar Dağı
The Kaçkar Dağı from the north

The Kaçkar Dağı from the north

height 3932  m
location Rize and Artvin provincial border ( Turkey )
Mountains Kaçkar Dağları ( Eastern Pontic Mountains )
Coordinates 40 ° 50 '13 "  N , 41 ° 9' 34"  E Coordinates: 40 ° 50 '13 "  N , 41 ° 9' 34"  E
Kaçkar Dağı (Turkey)
Kaçkar Dağı
Satellite image

The Kaçkar Dağı ( Armenian Քաջքար ) is at 3932  m the highest peak of the Eastern Pontic Mountains in northeastern Turkey .

It is about 40 km from the Black Sea coast and 70 km from the eastern border with Georgia and the port city of Batumi there . The Turkish coastal cities of Rize and Trabzon are about 70 and 120 km west of the mountain.

The surrounding mountain ranges ( Turkish Doğu Karadeniz Dağları ) are about 400 km long and represent the eastern third of the Pontus Mountains . This extends about 1000 km along the Black Sea and, with its numerous parallel chains - which extend up to 200 km inland - belongs to the Alpid orogeny (which developed at the same time as the Alps) .

The closest three thousand meter peaks are

To the south runs the valley of the Çoruh , which flows into the Black Sea at Batumi .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Turkey map of the Faculty of Geography at Ankara University