Kumluca

The centre of the district is a plain pointing north from the Mediterranean coast and surrounded by mountains on three sides. The northern part of the district is hilly and mountainous. Summers are hot and dry, winters cool and wet as one would expect in a Mediterranean district. The coast never gets snow, though it snows in the mountains. In this climate fruit and vegetables can be grown under glass all year round and this is the mainstay of the local economy, along with orange trees. Kumluca is a wealthy district.

There are 41 neighbourhoods in Kumluca District:[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Mahalle], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023.

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• Adrasan
• Altınyaka
• Bağlık
• Belen
• Beşikçi
• Beykonak
• Büyükalan
• Çaltı
• Çayiçi
• Cumhuriyet
• Dereköy
• Ellinci Yıl
• Erentepe
• Eskicami
• Göksu
• Gölcük
• Güzören
• Hacıveliler
• Hızırkahya
• İncircik
• Karacaağaç
• Karacaören
• Karşıyaka
• Kasapçayırı
• Kavakköy
• Kum
• Kuzca
• Mavikent
• Merkez
• Meydan
• Narenciye
• Ortaköy
• Salur
• Sarıcasu
• Sarıkavak
• Temel Eğitim
• Toptaş
• Yazır
• Yeni
• Yenikışla
• Yeşilköy

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In the last years of the Seljuqs of Rum, silver coins were minted in the town. Between 1282 and 1302, the town struck dirhams under Kaykhusraw III, Kayqubad III, and Mesud II with the mint name Sarıkavak ({{langx|ar|ساروقواق}}, Sārūqawāq){{Citation| last1 = Diler| first1 = Ömer| author-link = Ömer Diler| last2 = Hinrichs| first2 = Johann-Christoph| title = Islamic Mints (İslam darp yerleri)| place = Istanbul| publisher = Spink| year = 2009| volume = 2| pages = 644–645| isbn = 978-975-8428-18-2}}

Archaeologists have found a shipwreck dating back to the 15th-16th B.C 50 meters away from the coast of Kumluca district in early April in 2019. Archaeologist Hakan Öniz has published an article about this research in the journal Palestine Exploration Quarterly. He announced that a new Bronze Age shipwreck had been discovered in the same coast where the Gelidoniya and Uluburun shipwrecks were found and this finding belongs to earlier times than both of them.{{Cite web|url=https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/copper-ingots-ancient-shipwreck-turkish-coast/|title=Copper Ingots Found in Ancient Shipwreck off Turkish Coast|date=2019-04-18|website=Biblical Archaeology Society|language=en|access-date=2019-05-09}}{{Cite journal|last=Öniz|first=Hakan|date=2019|title=A new Bronze Age shipwreck with ingots in the west of Antalya—preliminary results|journal=Palestine Exploration Quarterly|volume=151|pages=3–14|doi=10.1080/00310328.2019.1579467|s2cid=166861964}}

The district has a population of 73,496 (2022). The town itself has 42,861 inhabitants.{{cite web|url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/turkey/antalya/kumluca/1548__kumluca/|title=Kumluca|website=citypopulation.de|access-date=19 June 2023}}

There are a number of important historical sites in the district of Kumluca including Olympos, Kitanaura, Korydalla, Rhodiapolis, Idebessos and Gagai; of these Olympos is the largest and attracts the most visitors.

There is {{convert|30|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} of coast with many hotels and restaurants between the villages of Adrasan and Olympos, and holiday villages near the town of Mavikent. West of Mavikent there is less development but taken as a whole Kumluca is one of the fastest growing local economies in Turkey.

• [http://www.kumluca.gov.tr/ District governor's official website] {{in lang|tr}}
• [http://www.kumluca-bld.gov.tr/ District municipality's official website] {{in lang|tr}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060422024155/http://www.antalyacity.info/kumluca.php Information on Kumluca]

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