Yeşildirek Mağarası lies in karstic limestone country at the Dedekoyağı locality in Sarıveliler, Karaman. It is a long cave of about 750 metres.
Stalactites and stalagmites fill it in quantity, and the formation is still going on rather than finished. A clean spring runs somewhere near the middle of it.
Because of the limestone, the provincial directorate says, the inside takes a colour that turns from deep black towards green.
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).
