Lake Yay ( tr, Yay Gölü) is a saline lake in

Kayseri Province The Kayseri Province ( tr, ) is situated in central Turkey. The population is 1,434,357 of which around 1,175,876 live in the city of Kayseri. It covers an area of 16,917 km2 and it borders with Sivas, Adana, Niğde, Kahramanmaraş, Yoz ...

, central

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. It is situated in the rural area of

Develi Develi, formerly known as Averak, is a town and district in Kayseri Province in Central Anatolia Region, Turkey. History The historical name of the town is Everek and it is called ''Averak'' (oren, ruin) in Armenian. The historian, geographer, ...

ilçe (district).

Description

The lake is the biggest in the Sultan Reedy National Park. The midpoint is at about . The elevation of its surface level is at above mean seas level. It is a shallow lake with an average depth of only . Its average surface area is about .Essay on Kayseri
/ref> While it covers a much wider surface during the rainy season, its area fluctuates and it mostly dries up in the summer season.
/ref> When at low ebb, salt is produced in the lake bed.

References

{{Lakes of Turkey Landforms of Kayseri Province Develi District

Yay Yay may refer to: * St. Anthony Airport, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, by IATA code * Gwune language, by ISO 639-3 code * ''Yay!'', a 2023 album by Norwegian progressive metal band Motorpsycho * Yay language, an alternate name for Bouyei, in s ...