The Ballık Köyü cedar, also called the Çatal cedar, was registered as a natural monument on 6 September 2002. It stands at the Ağıllıpınar locality near Ballık village in the Altınyayla district of Burdur, within a mixed forest of black pine and cedar.
The tree is a Lebanon cedar, 530 years old, 49 metres tall, 2.30 metres in diameter and 7.22 metres around — the tallest of the monument trees in this region.
The animals recorded in the area are wild boar, jackal, fox, hedgehog, martens and mole among mammals, with chukar, swift, sparrowhawk, common buzzard, blackbird, kestrel and peregrine among birds.
- Designated
- 6.09.2002
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- Climate
- Across Burdur as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 2.6 °C in January to 24.7 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (60 mm) and lightest in August (9 mm). Long-term means for 1931-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
