umra l esinde K rsal Yerle meler

The district of umra of Konya, situated on the south of Turkey’s largest closed basin, Konya lowland, overlays 2,320 squarekilometers. The neighbouring districts are Karatay in the north, Karap nar in the east, Ak ren and Meram in the west, Bozk r inthe southwest, Güneys n r in the south and Karaman in the southeast as a neighbouring city. In the study, principal locations andgeographical features of the rural settlements in the district have been analyzed and evaluated in terms of settlement geography.In the research zone, not only formations as geological elements belonging to Mesosoic, Tersier and Kuarterner, but also siltbelonging to Kuaterner and Neogen layers on which silt deposits covers a large area.Mountainous regions, base of lowland and the figures of topography belonging to the Old Lake of Konya consist themorphological units of the district. The mountainous regions consist of marn, conglomerate and pebbly limestone. In the westernpart of the umra lowland is covered with the eastern slopes of the mountains (Abazda ) called Erenler-Alacada which lay innorthern and southern directions, and the plateaus in front of these slopes. In the northern and eastern parts of the land, the restof the base of the lowland lays. The base of lowland, where silt coming from the Taurus mountains and the vicinity depositedduring the Neogen Era, is in 1000-1100 m izohips. Fullfilled with the alluviums came from around and the Taurus mountains hasbeen between 1000-1100 izohips. During the Pleistosen Era, the lowland of Konya had humid and fluvial climate and wascovered by a lake roughly about 15-20 m in depth, and even today, it’s possible to find residuals of the lake in the lowland of umra which has many similarities with the lowland of Konya.The climate of the district of umra and the vicinity is hot and dry in summer, whereas it’s cold and snowy in winter. Onaverage, the annual temperature of the region is 11 degrees in Celsius and the annual rainfall is 324 mm. The insufficiency ofrainfall in the region and the irregularity in the dispersion of the rainfall for months and seasons adversely affect the vegetationcover and the humidity levels of the land. As a result of these climatical features, the region now has step vegetation with fast- growing plants and flowers in spring and totally dried out plants in summer. In the timberland in the soutwest of the district, oakand juniper exist dispersedly.The most vital hydrographical units of the research zone include the arsamba river, The Apa dam and The Old Hotam Lake. The 90 percent of the project of the Apa