Lake Saka Nature Reserve | |
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Location | Sivriler, Demirköy, Kırklareli, Turkey |
Nearest city | İğneada |
Coordinates | 41°47′55″N 27°59′25″E / 41.79861°N 27.99028°E |
Area | 1,345 ha (3,320 acres) |
The Lake Saka Nature Reserve (Turkish: Saka Gölü Tabiatı Koruma Alanı) is a nature reserve at Sivriler village of Demirköy district in Kırklareli Province of Turkey close to İğneada on the Black Sea coast. It gets its name from the Lake Saka (Turkish: Saka Gölü), which is in the boundaries of the İğneada Floodplain Forests National Park. It is 26 km (16 mi) from Demirköy, and 19 km (12 mi) from İğneada.[1]
It covers an area of 1,345 ha (3,320 acres). The sits is on a floodplain of a river that flows into the Black Sea, and seasonally floods thus rendering it a unique and one of the very few remaining floodplain forests in all of Europe.[2]