There is a wrestling tournament in late-April to early-May at Salbaş and a countryside festival in the last week of August at Kızıldağ.

Following the arrival of the Turks in the area the name was changed to Çeceli and inhabited by the Yüreğir and Menemencioğulları and Ramazanoğulları tribes.

Between 1481 and 1496 the town was controlled by the Mamluk Sultanate and once it was defeated by the Ottoman sultan Selim I, he left the control of the town to the Ramazanoğulları dynasty as a vassal state.

Right before his death in 1520 however, Selim I decided to formally annex the town and the surrounding region into the Ottoman Empire.

There are 62 neighbourhoods in Karaisalı District:[4] Karaisalı has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa)[5] with mild, rainy winters and very hot, dry, yet muggy summers.