Cestrus River
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The Cestrus (in Greek Κεστρoς, Kestros), today called Aksu, is a river of Pamphylia (southwestern Turkey), which rises in the mountains of Selge. The course of the Cestrus is between the Catarrhactes to the west and of the Eurymedon to the east.
[edit] Classical times
The river is mentioned by Pomponius Mela as a navigable river, and as being navagable up as far up as Perga, 60 stadia from its mouth, according to Strabo.
[edit] Today
The Cestrus is 100 m. wide at its mouth, and 3 m. deep within the bar, which extends across the mouth, and so shallow in places in its delta as to be impassable to boats that draw more than one foot of water. The swell from the sea meeting the stream generally produces a violent surf.
At its headwaters is the Kovada Lake and just below that the Karacaören Dam reservoir.
[edit] References
- Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, "Cestrus", London, (1854)
- Glover, Clare P, Robertson, Alastair F (March 1998) "Role of regional extension and uplift in the Plio-Pleistocene evolution of the Aksu Basin, SW Turkey" Journal of the Geological Society 155(2): pp. 365-387
- Çapraz, Soner and Arslan, Naime (2005) "The Oligochaeta (Annelida) Fauna of Aksu Stream (Antalya)" Turkish Journal of Zoology 29: pp. 229-236
- Wildekamp, R.H. (1997) "First record of the eastern Asiatic gobionid fish Pseudorasbora parva from the Asiatic part of Turkey" Journal of Fish Biology 51(4): pp. 858–861
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