Karatepe-Aslantaş National Park, established in 1958, is a national park in southern Turkey. Situated on the banks of a dam reservoir, it contains an archaeological open-air museum.
A view of the national park seen from Karatepe. Ancient fortification wall at the open-air museum (left) and Aslantaş Dam reservoir (right).
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Aslantaş Dam is an embankment dam on the Ceyhan River in Osmaniye Province, southern Turkey, built between 1975 and 1984.
Karatepe-Aslantaş National Park
…of Taurus Mountains and the plains of Çukurova, where Ceyhan River runs through. The national park is partly on the banks of a reservoir formed by the Aslantaş Dam. The streams Hillik Creek, Kırağı Creek, Kışla Creek and Kaplan Creek, which are all tributes of the Ceyhan River and flow into the Aslantaş Dam…
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Aslantaş Dam reservoir (right) seen from Karatepe with the fortification wall (left) at the Karatepe-Aslantaş Open-Air Museum.