Bekaa Valley

Wine region

Bekaa Valley is a Wine region in Lebanon.

High plateau between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains at about 1,000 m, where nearly all Lebanese wine is made.

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Key facts

Type: Wine region
Area: 372,801 ha outline of the administrative units
Centre: 33.8974° N, 36.0757° E
Legal basis: Lebanon has no delimited appellations yet (Law 216/2000; none delimited by the INVV). Regions follow the cazas.

Outline: Built from the administrative units that contain the area. The legal boundary follows other lines (roads, rivers, farms or altitude), so the real area is smaller.

Where it is

Nearest town: 9.2 km south-east of Chmistâr
Nearest city: 17 km east of Zahlé 78,145 people
To the sea: 42 km
Same latitude: Texas High Plains (United States)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation: 549–3,035 m
Mean elevation: 1,328 m

Measured over the whole outline on 58,825 elevation cells of about 254 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

geoBoundaries LBN ADM2 (2021) (Public Domain)

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