KIZILIRMAK DELTA AND BIRDS’ PARADISE

KIZILIRMAK DELTA AND BIRDS’ PARADISE

Kızılırmak Delta is the biggest wetland area at the Black Sea coast of Turkey, which has protected its natural characteristic to some point. It’s also one of the biggest deltas of Turkey which is composed of alluvions carried by the Kızılırmak river. The region, called as Kızılırmak Delta, is located within Samsun in the administrative sense, also in Bafra -where Kızılırmak flows into the sea- in the geographical sense and on the northern side of Samsun-Sinop road which lies in between 19 Mayıs and Alacam towns. Delta rises in steps from sea upto the south. At the back side of the delta, there exist 600-800 meter high platos which lie through Kızılırmak and which compose the first line of Kuzey Anadolu Mountains. At the further back, there are mountains that are 1.000-1.500 meters high. Delta had geologically been formed in a very short time like one-two thousand years.