“Kula Geopark Visitor Centre KATAKEAUMENE” serves as information centre for tourists and as a Natural History Museum for Geo-education activities. Kula-Salihli UNESCO Global Geopark has established a range of facilities and supply services in terms of geotourism and geo-education infrastructure. The outstanding volcanic structures of the UNESCO Global Geopark area are well known since antique times where the great ancient Greek Geographer Strabo (63 BC-24 AD) in his majestic book “Geographica” named Kula as “KATAKEKAUMENE” (fire-born) because of the coal-black lava. The Quaternary volcanism in the area formed in three eruptive phases (1.1 million years to 300,000 and 15,000 years ago). Kula is the youngest volcanic region in Türkiye. Kula-Salihli UNESCO Global Geopark rests on the metamorphic basement of the Menderes massif and the ophiolitic mélange units of the İzmir-Ankara Zone, a remnant of the Tethyan Ocean. Kula-Salihli UNESCO Global Geopark has a complex geology due to the active tectonic regime in the Aegean extensional province, which is one of the most seismically active and rapidly deforming regions in the world dominated by converging plates, subduction collision related geodynamic process. Kula has a Mesothermal climate with hot dry summer and cold, rainy winters with rare snow. The area starts from 200 m above sea level in Salihli Town and rises up to 600m mean elevation in Kula Town. The Geopark is also of great historical significance with Homoerectus Valley, the Çakallar human footprint fossils, the Kanlıkaya rock paintings and the tumulus tombs of what once was the capital of the kingdom of Lydia, where money is believed to have been invented, the ruins of Sardis, founded nearly 3,000 years ago, and of a temple dedicated to Artemis in the 3rd century BCE. The Geopark features a large lava plateau, lava caves and basalt columns together with the range of morphological features associated with the formation of a graben, such as faults, fan deposits, earthquake related features, etc. It encompasses three distinct areas: the Kula volcanic province: one of the youngest volcanic fields in Türkiye, the Gediz Graben: a very tectonically active region and the Bozdağ Mountains. Located in the eastern part of the Aegean Region of Türkiye, the UNESCO Global Geopark contains evidence from more than 200 million years of earth history, from Paleozoic metamorphic rocks to prehistoric volcanic eruptions. UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.MGIEP - Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development.IESALC - International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean.IITE - Institute for Information Technologies in Education.IICBA - International Institute for Capacity-Building in Africa.IBE - International Bureau of Education.ICTP - International Centre for Theoretical Physics.IIEP - International Institute for Educational Planning. UNEVOC - International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training.Education for Sustainable Development Network.International Coalition of Inclusive and Sustainable Cities – ICCAR.Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.Advancing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.
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