Jezzine

Wine region

Jezzine is a Wine region in Lebanon.

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The map shows the official outline with relief, 3D terrain, slope and exposure, climate and soil.

Key facts

Type: Wine region
Area: 24,039 ha registered outline
Centre: 33.4778° N, 35.5808° 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: 14 km north-east of Nabatîyé et Tahta
Nearest city: 12 km north-east of Habboûch 98,433 people
To the sea: 22 km
Rivers nearby: Jordan (12 km)
Same latitude: Temecula Valley (United States)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 66–1,691 m
Mean elevation: 797 m

Measured over the whole outline on 59,874 elevation cells of about 64 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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