Azmak
A short, deep, spring-fed stream at Akyaka that runs cold and clear into the Gökova gulf.
The Turkish name
Azmak
At a glance
- District
- Ula
- Length
- About 1,700 m
- Flows into
- Gökova gulf
- Tour boats
- 23, all electric or solar
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- Sakin kent Akyaka'nın Kadın Azmağı "çevre dostu" teknelerle korunacak ↗Anadolu Ajansı · Checked 2026-09-23
The story
The Azmak is a short river in Ula district that reaches the Gökova gulf just east of Akyaka. It is also called the Kadın Azmağı or Akyaka Azmağı. Along the Gökova coast, azmak is a local word for water that wells up from the ground and flows to the sea, and here it is used to mean a stream.
It is only about 1,700 metres long, winding and more than 6 metres deep in places, but it carries a lot of water for its length: around 700 litres a second where it rises. Houses line its north bank and reeds its south bank, and turtles and otters live along it.
Boats from Akyaka take visitors up the stream, more than a million people a year. Since a project begun in 2016, all 23 tour boats run on solar or rechargeable power, to protect the Gökova Special Environmental Protection Area it flows into.
