Çamalan is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey.

[2] It is in the Taurus Mountains and to the west of Turkish state highway D.400.

They escaped from the harsh treatment of the Ottoman sultan Selim I to the forests of the mountainous area for concealment.

Their main economic activity was forestry, and they were called tahtacı ("woodman").

Nowadays, however, the majority of the village population is retired people from the cities in the Çukurova plains (Cilicia of the antiquity).