Administratively, Tatlıca Waterfalls are in the rural area of Ayancık ilçe (district ) of Sinop Province.

The source of the waterfall is Karasu creek which is a low capacity creek with high potential energy due to relatively high ramp of the stream bed which is 17%.

But now a staircase has been added next to the waterfall and it is possible to climb up without getting wet.

In 2011 the waterfalls were handed over to Ministry of Forestry and they were included in the List of nature parks of Turkey.

[2] The total area of the nature park is 453.09 decares (0.45309 km2; 0.17494 sq mi) including the area allocated to picnickers.