Maraspoli Mağarası lies beneath the castle at Ermenek in Karaman and has two entrances. Its length is given as 196 metres.
The water inside it matters to the town: an underground river running through the cave supplies the drinking water of Ermenek and the settlements around it. The same water drove a hydroelectric plant that supplied Ermenek and its villages with power for a long period — the provincial directorate puts that in the past tense.
The directorate also states that foreign experts have determined the cave to be one of the three largest in the world.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Karaman as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.7 °C in January to 23.5 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (47 mm) and lightest in August (6 mm). Long-term means for 1951-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
