Aitanite
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Aitanite/ Aitaneet is a village in Lebanon.
The population is about 500 people. Most of the townspeople are elderly or children. Aitanit has 2 churches, 1 for the Meronite and the other is Melkite Catholic. The entire village is Catholic, except a couple of Sunni Muslim inhabatants. Aitanit has 1 school taught by the nuns of the village. Aitanit is located in the southern region of Lebanon, particularly the Beqaa Valley. Aitanit is also located about 1070 meters above sea level and is currently on the edge of a mountain. Below the mountain and the village is Lake Quaroun (Litani river). The whole region around the village are farmlands and pastures filled with grape and olive trees. Aitanit is about (45 km) 45 minutes from Zahle (Capital of the Bekaa valley region) and about an hour and thrity minutes from Beirut. The village itself is about a 5-minute walk and a 1–2 minute drive, for it is a very small village. Just about 5 minutes south,is the village of Machghara. In the winter, Aitanit experiences cool, wet, snowy conditions (about 10/50 degrees in the day and about 1/33 or 1/34 degrees in the night) but in the summer, it experiences hot dry conditions (30/86 to 37/99 in the day and about 20/68 to 28/82 in the night). Each year, Aitanit holds a festival called Eid Al Sayde. At the festival, you can experience food cooked by the women of the town, fireworks and loud debke music. Debke is a Traditional Lebanese dance.
Climate:
| Weather data for Aitanit - Machghara | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 13 (57) |
18 (65) |
21 (70) |
25 (77) |
29 (85) |
32 (92) |
36 (97) |
37 (98) |
31 (88) |
25 (77) |
21 (70) |
14 (58) |
26 (79) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 6 (40) |
11 (52) |
12 (54) |
16 (60) |
18 (65) |
21 (69) |
23 (72) |
21 (69) |
17 (64) |
15 (59) |
12 (54) |
11 (51) |
18 (63) |
| Precipitation cm (inches) | 18 (8) |
15.5 (3) |
9 (4) |
5.1 (2) |
1.7 (0) |
0.25 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0.5 (0) |
4 (2) |
12.5 (4) |
17 (7) |
86 (22) |
| Source: Weatherbase[1] 2007 | |||||||||||||
[edit] References
- ^ "Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Beirut". Weatherbase. 2007. http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=104&refer=&units=us. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
See:
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