Hazar Gölü

Hazar Gölü (altitude: 1,248m/4,096ft), about 22km/14mi south of Elazig, not far from the district town of Sivrice, is the source lake of the Tigris (Dicle Nehri). From the lake the 1,900km/1,180mile-long river flows for some 523km/325mi across southeastern Turkey, reaching the Iraqi frontier south of Cizre.