Çaykavak is a mountain pass in Niğde Province

Nigde Province

Niğde Province is a small rural province in the southern part of Central Anatolia, Turkey. Population is 337.931 of which 100.418 live in the city of Niğde. The population was 348,081 in 2000 and 305.861 in 1990. It covers an area of 7,312 km²...

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Turkey

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Çaykavak is situated on the northern slopes of Toros Mountains

Taurus Mountains

Taurus Mountains are a mountain complex in southern Turkey, dividing the Mediterranean coastal region of southern Turkey from the central Anatolian Plateau. The system extends along a curve from Lake Eğirdir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the east...

 on the highway connecting Niğde to the Mediterranean coast

Mediterranean Sea

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. It is 48 kilometres (29.8 mi) to Niğde

Nigde

Niğde is a small city and the capital of Niğde Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. The population is 109,724 per the 2010 statistics...

  and 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to the highway, the main north to south highway in Central Turkey which merges to. The coordinates are 37°35′43"N 34°32′31"E and the altitude is 1584 metres (5,196.9 ft).

While south of the pass is mountainous, the north composed of high plains except for the heights 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) away where the highway passes through Kolsuz Pass

Kolsuz Pass

Kolsuz is a mountain pass in Niğde Province, TurkeyKolsuz is situated next to a village with the same name on the highway connecting Niğde to the Mediterranean coast...

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