The land that Çukurova district now occupies was made up of orchards, forestry and scattered villages.

After Aytaç Durak's election as the mayor of Adana, an extensive urban plan was made.

The urban plan consisted of 200,000 homes, several parks, schools and shopping places to be built over the next 30 years.

[4][5] At the 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation, the rural part of the district was integrated into the municipality, the villages becoming neighbourhoods.

Encümen is the executive committee of the Çukurova Municipality.The mayor presides the encümen and the committee consists of 7 members, 3 councilors elected from the municipal council, 3 department directors appointed by the mayor and the treasurer.

It is responsible for approving by-laws, founding, splitting or amalgamating neighborhoods, strategic planning, urban development planning and zoning, making investments, budgeting, loaning and controlling the mayor's activities.

The councilors are elected by the d'Hondt method, where the whole municipality is one electoral district and there is 10% threshold for a party to gain seat at the council.

Neighbourhoods (Mahalle) are small administrative units within the municipalities, and are administered by the muhtar and the Neighborhood Seniors Council consisting of 4 members.

[10] Due to the law numbered 5747, titled "LAW ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICTS WITHIN THE METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY BOUNDARIES AND AMENDING CERTAIN LAWS," published in the Official Gazette on March 22, 2008, issue number 26824 (Duplicate), the following neighborhoods were transferred from SEYHAN district to ÇUKUROVA : The 27 neighbourhoods of Çukurova District are:[8] The urban neighborhoods of Çukurova are spread into 3 distinctive zones.

North of Turgut Özal Boulevard: The most scenic section of Adana, the zone is all residential, villas on the hills overlooking to the Seyhan Reservoir and high rise buildings along Turgut Özal and Süleyman Demirel Boulevards.

The 5 neighborhoods of the zone are, Huzurevleri, Belediye Evleri, Yüzüncüyıl, Esentepe, Kabasakal and Şambayadı.

Tevriz Dura Stadium is the football facility of the district and it is located in the Yüzüncü Yıl neighboorhood.

Adana Metro serves with 4 stations in Çukurova: Hastane, Anadolu Lisesi, Huzurevi and Mavi Bulvar.

People buses (known as Reds, Kırmızılar) is only accept bus cards (KentKart) for payment.

There is a few minibus services serving the Çukurova: Topel, İtimat, Özen, Cemalpaşa, Denizli, Barkal, and Yeşilevler.