title: Çamlıdere, Ankara
text: Çamlıdere is a municipality and district of Ankara Province, Turkey. Its area is 782 km2, and its population is 8,100 (2022). It is 108 km north-west of the city of Ankara. Its elevation is .
  
  Çamlıdere was settled by the Seljuk Turks and there are a number of Seljuk period buildings in the area.
  
  Many fossils and a petrified forest have been found in the area.
  
  Demographics 
  The district of Çamlıdere experienced a rapid depopulation, especially in rural villages, like many other rural and remote areas in Central Anatolia.
  
  Composition
  There are 48 neighbourhoods in Çamlıdere District:
  
   Ahatlar
   Akkaya
   Alakoç
   Atça
   Avdan
   Avşarlar
   Bardakçılar
   Bayındır
   Beşbeyler
   Beyler
   Bökeler
   Buğralar
   Çamköy
   Çukurören
   Dağkuzören
   Doğancı
   Doğanlar
   Dörtkonak
   Doymuş
   Eldelek
   Elmalı
   Elören
   Elvanlar
   Gümele
   Güney
   İnceöz
   Kayabaşı
   Körler
   Kuşçular
   Kuyubaşı
   Meşeler
   Müsellim
   Muzrupağacın
   Ömerağa
   Örenköy
   Orta
   Osmansin
   Özmüş
   Peçenek
   Pelitçik
   Sarıkavak
   Tatlak
   Yahşihan
   Yahyalar
   Yayalar
   Yediören
   Yılanlı
   Yoncatepe
  
  Çamlıdere today
  This is an attractive woodland district with lakes, meadows, a deer park, a scout camp and many other places for camping, walking and picnics. In summertime Çamlıdere is busy with day-trippers from Ankara and there is a growing number of guest-houses for weekenders coming to enjoy the fresh air and open skies. The people in this rural area are typically conservative and religious in outlook.
  
  The summer festival in July features oil-wrestling, music, dance, circumcisions of boys, and pilgrimage to the tomb of Sheikh Ali Semerkandi.
  
  Places of interest
   The country house of former president İsmet İnönü.
  
  References
  
  External links
   District governor's official website 
   
  
   
  Populated places in Ankara Province
  Districts of Ankara Province
  Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey