The Kamilet beech is the larger of Artvin province's two monument trees by a wide margin. Both were registered on 6 September 2002 on 1,000 square metres each, but where the Melodere spruce measures 0.76 metres across, this oriental beech is 3.08 metres, with a girth of 9.70 metres and a height of 42 metres. Its age is given as about 300 years — twice that of the spruce.
It is a Fagus orientalis, standing at the Kamilet locality in Erenköy village, Murgul district. Unlike the spruce it is not inside a national park.
Trekking and mountaineering are the activities the directorate lists for the area around it.
- Designated
- 6.09.2002
When to go
- Climate
- Across Artvin as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 2.8 °C in January to 21.3 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (87 mm) and lightest in August (29 mm). Long-term means for 1949-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
