Köyceğiz, Muğla Province, Aegean Region, Türkiye
🇹🇷 Köyceğiz is a town and district of Muğla Province in the Aegean region of Turkey.
The town of Köyceğiz lies at the northern end of a lake of the same name (Köyceğiz Lake) which is joined to the Mediterranean Sea by a natural channel called Dalyan Delta. Its unique environment is being preserved as a nature and wildlife sanctuary, the Köyceğiz-Dalyan Special Environmental Protection Area. A road shaded with trees leads to the township that carries the same name as the river, Dalyan, which is situated on the inland waterway and is administratively a part of the neighbouring district of Ortaca. Dalyan is highly popular with visitors and its maze of channels can be explored by boat. The restaurants which line the waterways specialise in fresh fish. High on the cliff face, at a bend in the river, above the ancient harbour city of Caunos, tombs were carved into the rocks. The Dalyan Delta, with a long, golden sandy beach at its mouth, is a nature conservation area and a refuge for rare loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) and blue crabs.
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Köyceğiz has a population of over 33,570 people. Köyceğiz also forms part of the wider Muğla Province which has a population of over 1,000,773 people. Köyceğiz is situated near Muğla.
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