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Boraboy Gölü is a natural landslide-dammed lake west of the village of Boraboy, about twenty-five kilometres from the Taşova district of Amasya.
The landslide that made the lake has to do both with the rock of the region and with the North Anatolian Fault, which runs straight through it. Water seeping deep along the fracture lines of the weak zone created by the fault eased the mass movement over the tuffs and agglomerates and prepared the ground for the slide; when it blocked the valley, the waters of the Çatağın stream — the name the Boraboy stream carries along this stretch — gathered behind it and formed the lake. A concrete weir five metres high was later built on the natural dam, both to keep floods from cutting through it and to serve irrigation, with a gate system that releases the surplus when rain or a sudden thaw raises the lake too far. Because of the weir the surface of the lake widens in spring.
The lake is used for irrigation and is a place of recreation for the country around it. It runs east to west; coniferous forest, mostly Scots pine, holds the northern slopes, and broadleaved forest dominated by hornbeam and beech the southern. For people living in the lower country, oppressed by the summer heat, the cool woodland is an attraction. The first simple facilities were built in the 1970s, and 70,000 people visited the area in 2017.
- Designated
- 3.09.2013
Entry fee
- Black Sea group 2 · category 1 · Per person
- 65 ₺
