Its elevation with respect to sea level is about 1,110 metres (3,640 ft).

Its surface area is 3,123 hectares (7,720 acres).

[1] The lake is fed by Battal and Çebişli creeks.

The birds of the lake are the following: Moustached warbler, whiskered tern, black tern, common tern, stork, red-crested pochard, greylag goose.

Among the fishes of the lake cobitis turcica is an endemic species of Turkey.