Kfar Fila كفرفيلا |
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Location in Lebanon | |
Coordinates: 33°28′56″N 35°29′58″E / 33.48222°N 35.49944°ECoordinates: 33°28′56″N 35°29′58″E / 33.48222°N 35.49944°E | |
Grid position | 127/171 L |
Country | Lebanon |
Governorate | Nabatieh Governorate |
District | Nabatieh District |
Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
• Summer (DST) | +3 (UTC) |
Kfar Fila (Arabic: كفرفيلا), is a town in the Nabatieh Governorate, (Arabic: النبطية) al-Nabatiya, or Nabatiye southern Lebanon. It is one of the 243 towns of Nabatieh Governorate, situated at the northern region of this district, at the other side of Al-Kateh(The cutter); a shallow but wide valley, separating a group of 32 towns from the Sidon District.
Kfar Fila sits at the bottom of Iqlim al-Tuffah mountains and supervised by Jbaa, Ain Qana and Ain Bouswar, rising from sea level to over 582 meters, and away from the town of Nabatieh about 22 km, and about 60 km from the capital of Beirut, The Town's area real estate is 3,500 dunums, The population is about 2,500 people half residing in the town and the other half mainly works and lives in Beirut and neighborliness, the number of voters are 950 (regulations from 1998) and the number of housing units are 445 units.
The town is famous for cultivation of different kind of onions and foremost the white fancy kind which has been a must for the people of the various areas of the whole country as far as Tyre, Zahlé, Tripoli, Sidon and Nabatieh. The annual production is more than twenty eight tons.
Although the mountainous profile of this town is harsh, the olive trees cultivation is equally successful and popular, with high quality of olive oil, extracted with the traditional Koranian cold technique, Kfar Fila is also popular with its fruits as it is known to most locals as the large garden of fruit trees. As the homes rimmed with beautiful gardens and trees spread to its own shops, and miscellaneous Dakkakin on both sides of the main road to the town (saha).