Şahinkaya canyon lies on the Altınkaya dam lake, which was built on the Kızılırmak, and it is the deepest point of that reservoir. It runs about 1,500 metres.
The turquoise water below it is what people come to see. It is 13 kilometres from Vezirköprü, in the Türkmen quarter.
It lies thirteen kilometres from Vezirköprü, with the turquoise water of the Kızılırmak below it.
- Designated
- 21.09.2015
When to go
- Climate
- Across Samsun as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 7.2 °C in February to 23.7 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in November (83 mm) and lightest in July (35 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
