River Göksu
Sign in to saveThe Göksu River (), known in antiquity as the Calycadnus and in the Middle Ages as the Saleph, is a river on the Taşeli Plateau in southern Turkey. Its two sources arise in the Taurus Mountains—the northern in the Geyik Mountains and the southern in the Haydar Mountains—and meet south of Mut. The combined stream then flows south to the Göksu Delta in the Mediterranean Sea near Silifke.
Key facts
- River.name
- Göksu River
- River.image
- SilifkeKale4.jpg
- River.image_size
- 270px
- River.image_caption
- Göksu River and Silifke Castle
- River.source1_location
- Taurus Mountains
- River.mouth
- Göksu Delta
- River.mouth_location
- Mediterranean Sea near Silifke
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Turkey
- River.length_km
- 260
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The Göksu River (), known in antiquity as the Calycadnus and in the Middle Ages as the Saleph, is a river on the Taşeli Plateau in southern Turkey. Its two sources arise in the Taurus Mountains—the northern in the Geyik Mountains and the southern in the Haydar Mountains—and meet south of Mut. The combined stream then flows south to the Göksu Delta in the Mediterranean Sea near Silifke.
==Names== is Turkish for "Sky(-blue) Water". It is also known as the Geuk Su. It was known to the ancient Greeks as the Kalýkadnos (), Latinized as the . It was known in the Middle Ages as the .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “River Göksu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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