[1] It covers the northern part of the city of Mersin and the adjacent countryside.

Yumuktepe, the ruins of one of the earliest human settlements in Anatolia is in Toroslar.

Excavations by John Garstang and Seton Lloyd both of which were directors of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, revealed 23 levels of occupation, the earliest dating from c. 6300 BC.

[5][6] At the 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation, the rural part of the district was integrated into the municipality, the villages becoming neighbourhoods.

The majority of residents are blue-collar workers who work at factories or in the fields.