title: Kumluca
text: Kumluca is a municipality and district of Antalya Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,225 km2, and its population is 73,496 (2022). It lies on the Mediterranean coast, and is part of the Turkish Riviera. Kumluca is located  west of the city of Antalya, on the Teke Peninsula, (between the bays of Antalya and Fethiye). Its neighbour towns are Korkuteli, Elmalı, Finike, Kemer and Antalya
  
  The town of Kumluca, formerly the village of Sarıkavak, is named for its sandy soil (kum meaning sand in Turkish), good for growing watermelons.
  
  Geography
  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.
  
  Composition
  There are 41 neighbourhoods in Kumluca District:
  
   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
  
  History
  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 (, Sārūqawāq)
  
  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 Gelidonya and Uluburun shipwrecks were found and this finding belongs to earlier times than both of them.
  
  Greek Families lived in the village together with the Turks of the village and the Greek families left during the Greek-Turkish population exchange.
  
  Demographics
  
  The district has a population of 73,496 (2022). The town itself has 42,861 inhabitants.
  
  Tourism
  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  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.
  
  References
  
  External links 
   District governor's official website 
   District municipality's official website 
   Information on Kumluca
  
  Populated places in Antalya Province
  Populated coastal places in Turkey
  Districts of Antalya Province
   
  Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey