El Haouta
El Haouta is a locality in South Governorate, Lebanon. El Haouta is situated nearby to the locality Jdaidé, as well as near Jaziré.Places of Interest
Highlights include Phoenician sanctuary of Kharayeb and Leontes Bridge.
Phoenician sanctuary of Kharayeb
Archaeological site
The Phoenician sanctuary of Kharayeb is a historic temple in the hinterland of Tyre, Southern Lebanon, 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. Phoenician sanctuary of Kharayeb is situated 2½ km north of El Haouta.
Leontes Bridge
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Leontes Bridge is a ruined Roman bridge in Lebanon; it crossed the Litani River in the vicinity of Nahr Abou Assouad, 10 km north of Tyre. The bridge, which is dated to the 3rd or 4th century AD, featured a comparatively flat arch with a span-to-rise ratio of 3.1 to 1. Leontes Bridge is situated 3 km northwest of El Haouta.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burj Rahal and Bedias.
Burj Rahal
Village
Photo: Micheal Mike, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Burj Rahal is a municipality in the Tyre District in South Lebanon.
Abbassiyeh
Town
Abbassiyeh, also spelled Abbassieh, is a municipality in the Tyre District of South Lebanon. Abbassiyeh is situated 3 km south of El Haouta.
El Haouta
- Type: Locality
- Also known as: “Al Ḩawţah”
- Location: South Governorate, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.32329° or 33° 19′ 24″ northLongitude
35.27793° or 35° 16′ 41″ eastElevation
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
8G5Q87FH+85GeoNames ID
11805629
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In Other Languages
“El Haouta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الحوطة”
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