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.
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:
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
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 (ساروقواق, 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.