Çamlıdere is a municipality and district of Ankara Province, Turkey. Its area is 782 km2, and its population is 8,100 (2022). It is 108 km north-west of the city of Ankara. Its elevation is .
Çamlıdere was settled by the Seljuk Turks and there are a number of Seljuk period buildings in the area.
Many fossils and a petrified forest have been found in the area.
Demographics
The district of Çamlıdere experienced a rapid depopulation, especially in rural villages, like many other rural and remote areas in Central Anatolia.
Composition
There are 48 neighbourhoods in Çamlıdere District:
Ahatlar
Akkaya
Alakoç
Atça
Avdan
Avşarlar
Bardakçılar
Bayındır
Beşbeyler
Beyler
Bökeler
Buğralar
Çamköy
Çukurören
Dağkuzören
Doğancı
Doğanlar
Dörtkonak
Doymuş
Eldelek
Elmalı
Elören
Elvanlar
Gümele
Güney
İnceöz
Kayabaşı
Körler
Kuşçular
Kuyubaşı
Meşeler
Müsellim
Muzrupağacın
Ömerağa
Örenköy
Orta
Osmansin
Özmüş
Peçenek
Pelitçik
Sarıkavak
Tatlak
Yahşihan
Yahyalar
Yayalar
Yediören
Yılanlı
Yoncatepe
Çamlıdere today
This is an attractive woodland district with lakes, meadows, a deer park, a scout camp and many other places for camping, walking and picnics. In summertime Çamlıdere is busy with day-trippers from Ankara and there is a growing number of guest-houses for weekenders coming to enjoy the fresh air and open skies. The people in this rural area are typically conservative and religious in outlook.
The summer festival in July features oil-wrestling, music, dance, circumcisions of boys, and pilgrimage to the tomb of Sheikh Ali Semerkandi.
Places of interest
The country house of former president İsmet İnönü.
References
External links
District governor's official website
Populated places in Ankara Province
Districts of Ankara Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey