Kumluca is a district of Antalya Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, part of the Turkish Riviera. Kumluca is located 93 km west of the city of Antalya, on the Teke Peninsula, (between the bays of Antalya and Fethiye). 

The centre of the district is a plain pointing north from the Mediterranean coast and surrounded by mountains on three sides.

The north of the district is hills and mountain. Summers are hot and dry, winters cool and wet as you would expect in a Mediterranean district; it never snows on the coast but there is snow on 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, and Kumluca is a wealthy district.


There is 30 km 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..


Kumluca's first nestle is in 1830 at 5 km of east of the today's centrum, with Sarikavak name. İn 01.04.1958 divided from Finike and happened a minicipality.

The name of kumluca was made like this; a farmer started to make watermelons in sandy place sands a ground (that where is centrum now).watermelons had happened very big.

While farmer sales the watermelons costomers asked; "where did you made these watermelons?" and he answered " in the a sandy place sands a ground".

After that peoples started to say sandy place sands (sandy place sands is like Kumluca in Turkish) to that ground.