Lake Nemrut Lake Nemrut Lake Nemrut () is a freshwater crater lake in Bitlis Province, eastern Turkey. It is part of Nemrut Caldera (), a volcanic caldera atop Volcano Nemrut. The caldera is a registered natural monument and the wetlandsis registered as a Ramsar site of the country. The caldera is located west of Lake Van in the Tatvan, Ahlat and Güroymak districts of Bitlis Province. It is named after the biblical figure King Nimrod. The caldera is far from Tatvan, and from Ahlat. With its width of nearly , the crater of Nemrut Volcano is one of the largest calderas of
Nemrut (volcano) The direction of pressure coming from the Arabian plate is gradually turning from South-North to the West-East, with a linear shift of 7.8–9 mm per year. Fumarolic activity and the presence of many hot springs are observed at the bottom of the caldera. The volcano has an elliptical shape and covers 486 km. Its center contains 377.5 km of volcanic material, mainly 0.23–1.18 million years old lava. Nemrut has a distinct caldera with an area of 46.7 km and a volume of 32.9 km; the maximum height of the edge of the caldera is above sea level (Sivritepe, on the