Yavşan Yaylası lies thirty-six kilometres from the centre of Kahramanmaraş. It was declared the thirty-ninth nature park in Türkiye on 15 December 2009 and covers 348 hectares.
In the southern part of the park, an area of 238 hectares holds cedars six to seven hundred years old along with a range of endemic plants and animals.
The pasture is rich in plant life. Scientific work carried out here identified 534 taxa spread across sixty-seven families and 287 genera, sixty-eight of them — 12.7 per cent — endemic.
Among the conifers growing here naturally are the Taurus fir, the cedar of Lebanon, black pine and juniper; among the broadleaves, aspen and oak. Wild walnut grows along the stream beds.
The area is home to a variety of wild animals, among them wild boar, wolf, fox and hare, and to many kinds of bird. It lies in the Onikişubat district.
The park's 348 hectares are divided into three zones: 238 hectares of strict protection in the south, 77 hectares of limited use and 33 hectares of controlled use.
- Designated
- 16.12.2009
Entry fee
- Mediterranean group 3 · category 1 · Per person
- 65 ₺
When to go
- Climate
- Across Kahramanmaraş as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 4.9 °C in January to 28.5 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May, June, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (131 mm) and lightest in August (2 mm). Long-term means for 1930-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
