Yumurtalık
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 Yumurtalık |
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| Location in Turkey | |
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| Region | Mediterranean Region, Turkey |
| Province | Adana Province |
| Population | 5,000 |
| Area | 51 km² |
| Coordinates | NA |
| Postal code | 01xx |
| Area code | 0322 |
| Licence plate code | 01 |
Yumurtalık is a district of Adana Province of Turkey, a Mediterranean port 80 km from the city of Adana. Population only 5,000 in winter, but in summer rises to 30 to 40,000 as the people of Adana have holiday homes here. Area 51 km².
In the history the town was named Ayas, and that name is still used by local people. It was the major harbour of local Armenian Kingdom under Eastern Roman Empire.
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[edit] History
The port has a long history, at least to 2000BC and Hittite pottery has been found in the 17th century BC mound of Zeytinbeli Höyük. Subsequently many more civilisations have passed through.
The actor and film director Yılmaz Güney was arrested here after a shooting incident.
[edit] Yumurtalık today
The sea is clean and there is still a relaxed feel to this coast so Yumurtalık is a holiday and weekend retreat for the people of Adana and the other cities in the Çukurova region, who come to stay in complexes of seaside hoiday flats. There are also small hotels and guest houses for the occasional visitors who come to swim in the day and stroll along the beach or into the village in the evenings. The public beaches are generally covered with litter, in fact they are a disgrace. The human visitor has an alternative, the holiday villages have private beaches which are kept clean and can be used for a daily entrance fee, but the beaches were also nesting places for the sea turtles caretta caretta, and these ladies don't come to Yumurtalık with credit cards. In fact the amount of beach-front holiday property is also part of the problem, even though the sand is clean the turtles won't lay eggs in these busy beaches with neon-lit discotheques blasting out all night.
As well as tourism there is agricultural land behind the coast producing tomatoes, watermelons, etc.
Just outside Yumurtalık is the Botaş oil and natural gas terminal, the end of the Yumurtalık oil pipeline from Northern Iraq, which was opened in the 1970s. Refined oils are also imported through here by sea. Immediately to the SW, there is the oil terminal for crude oil pipeline from Baku, opened in 2006. More to SW there is a coal fired power plant.
[edit] Places of interest
- Ayas castle
- The dock used Marco Polo when sailing back from Asia.
- the tower of Suleyman
caretta caretta turtles beaches
There are also picnic areas, a beach and birdwatching in the lagoon.
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 Yumurtalık in Adana Province (in the Mediterranean region) of Turkey |
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| Urban districts | Adana - (Karaisalı - Seyhan - Yüreğir) |    |
| Rural districts | Aladağ - Ceyhan - Feke - İmamoğlu - Karataş - Kozan - Pozantı - Saimbeyli - Tufanbeyli - Yumurtalık | |
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| Aegean | ||
| Black Sea | ||
| Central Anatolia | ||
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| Marmara | ||
| Mediterranean Sea | ||
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