Geography

The town is in rural area of Gülnar

Gülnar

Gülnar is a district of Mersin Province of Turkey, south-west of the city of Mersin.-Geography:The town of Gülnar is inland on a plain high in the Taurus Mountains, attractive countryside known for its vineyards and its green meadows used for summer grazing. Gülnar is a small town providing high...

 district which in turn is a part of Mersin Province. The coordinates of the midtown can be given as 36°25′N 33°08′E. The highway distance to Gülnar is 33 km (20.5 mi) and to Mersin

Mersin

-Mersin today:Today, Mersin is a large city spreading out along the coast, with Turkey's second tallest skyscraper , huge hotels, an opera house, expensive real estate near the sea or up in the hills, and many other modern urban...

 is 182 km (113.1 mi). Köseçobanlı is on a high platue of Toros Mountains, the average altitude being around 1300 metres (4,265.1 ft)

People

Like surrounding villages and towns, origin of Köseçobanlı residents are mostly Yörük

Yörük

The Yorouks, also Yuruks or Yörüks are immigrants, ultimately of Thracian descent,some of whom are still nomadic, primarily inhabiting the mountains of Anatolia and partly Balkan peninsula...

s (nomadic Oghuz Turks

Oghuz Turks

The Turkomen also known as Oghuz Turks were a historical Turkic tribal confederation in Central Asia during the early medieval Turkic expansion....

) who had migrated from Turkestan

Turkestan

Turkestan, spelled also as Turkistan, literally means "Land of the Turks".The term Turkestan is of Persian origin and has never been in use to denote a single nation. It was first used by Persian geographers to describe the place of Turkish peoples...

 during Mongol invasions

Mongol invasions

Mongol invasions progressed throughout the 13th century, resulting in the vast Mongol Empire which covered much of Asia and Eastern Europe by 1300....

. The population is 2719 (as of 2010)

Economy

The main economic activity is agriculture. The main crops are cereals, apple and chickpea . The traditional livestock was goat. But cattle has replaced goats in order to protect forest around. Another business is beekeeping.