Introduction
| موقع كفركلا يرحب بكم |
Kafarkila Municipality / بلدية كفركلا
Welcome to Kafarkila Website! Here you shall find information about a special and typical Lebanese village. This site will be updated from time to time in order to provide more accurate information.
Where is Kafarkila?
Kafarkila, Kfarkila or Kfarkela is a small beautiful southern Lebanese village. It is about 96 km away from Beirut (Lebanon Capital). Kfarkila is popular for its high quality olive oil. It is rich with pre-historical temples and caves. It is was liberated from Israeli occupation on May 24, 2000 and later survived the five-week Israeli war against Lebanon ( July 12 to August 14, 2006).
If you are a Kfarkila resident please feel free to contact the webmaster of this site (info found on contact page) so that your name appears on the directory listing.
(In the above figure, you can see Kafarkila grapes while starting to become redish.)
Facts about Kafarkila
Kfarkila falls on Latitude 33.3 and Longitude 35.5. Standard time zone: UTC/GMT +2 hours. Neighboring towns are: Deir Mimas, Odaisa, Taiba, Khiyam, Al-Khirbah, Qleiya, Marijyoun. Kafarkila is an evergreen village due to its olive trees that spread across the village. Olive trees can grow to 50Â ft. in height with a spread of about 30Â ft. The tree can be kept to about 20Â ft. with regular pruning. The graceful, billowing appearance of the olive tree can be rather attractive.
Lebanon is relatively a small country. Consequently, although Kafarkila lies on the southern borders, yet it takes about 1 hour and 30 minutes to reach Beirut by car, which makes residents working or studying at the capital visit their village more often during weekends.
Location of the Town
Kafarkela falls on Latitude 33.3 and Longitude 35.5. Standard time zone: UTC/GMT +2 hours. Neighboring towns are: Deir Mimas, Odaisa, Taiba, Khiyam, Al-Khirbah, Qleiya, Marijyoun. Lebanon is relatively a small country. Consequently, although Kafarkila lies on the southern borders, yet it takes about 1 hour and 30 minutes to reach Beirut by car, which makes residents working or studying at the capital visit their village more often during weekends.
Kfar kila LIVE Map :(Click Here).
Kfarkila Map :(English, Arabic).
About Kafarkila Website
This website intends to present our beloved village – Kafarkila. In addition, the website aims to facilitate an eclectic and growing collection of information about Kfarkila and its inhabitants. If you have information you would like to add or share please free to email the webmaster.
We plan to reach a point where we have an online community for Kafarkela inhabitants where all of us can get updated information about the town via the web.