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

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.

There are 41 neighbourhoods in Kumluca District:[4] 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 (Arabic: ساروقواق, Sārūqawāq)[5] 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.