The Pülümür valley lies among steep, high mountains, and what defines it is the Pülümür stream running through it. The stream comes down from the Pülümür mountains, begins about twenty kilometres north of the Tunceli-Pülümür road and runs as far as Pülümür, joining the Munzur at Tunceli.
It flows through a narrow, steep valley whose sides are covered on both banks with dense forest, and the road between Tunceli and Pülümür follows it.
Getting there
- Access
- The valley follows the Tunceli-Pulumur road.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Tunceli as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -1.8 °C in January to 27.1 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (133 mm) and lightest in August (5 mm). Long-term means for 1960-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
