Kaff el Ahmar

Kaff el Ahmar is a hill in , and has an elevation of 140 metres. Kaff el Ahmar is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Phoenician sanctuary of Kharayeb.

Archaeological site
The is a historic temple in the hinterland of , , that was excavated in three stages. In 1946, Maurice Chehab, head of Lebanon's Directorate General of Antiquities, led the first mission that revealed a Hellenistic period temple and thousands of clay figurines dating from the sixth-to-first centuries BC. is situated 3½ km south of Kaff el Ahmar.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aadloun and Ansariyeh, Lebanon.

Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
, Adloun or Adlun is a coastal municipality in South , 17 kilometres south of famous for its cultivation of watermelons. It is also the site of a Phoenician necropolis and prehistoric caves where four archaeological sites have been discovered and dated to the Stone Age. is situated 3 km north of Kaff el Ahmar.

Village
Photo: AbouChahine, Public domain.
Ansariyeh, Ansariyah, or Insariye is a municipality in in , 62 km from and 20 km south of . The area is 7.35 km² and is situated near the sea facing it from an altitude of 144 m. is situated 3½ km north of Kaff el Ahmar.

Village
Photo: HusseinHijazy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a historic municipality in the in the , Lebanon. The town is 77 km south of Beirut, and stands at an average altitude of 190 m above sea level. is situated 4½ km southeast of Kaff el Ahmar.

Kaff el Ahmar

Latitude
33.37889° or 33° 22′ 44″ north
Longitude
35.2775° or 35° 16′ 39″ east
Elevation
140 metres (459 feet)
Open location code
8G5Q97HH+H2
Geo­Names ID
272916
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In Other Languages

“Kaff el Ahmar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كف الأحمر”

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