Tannourine Cedar Forest

Tannourine cedar forest is located on Jabal Mar Moroune and Jabal es Sair between the 
villages Hadeth el Joube and Tannourine Tahta.
They encompass about 200 hectares of forest of which only 85 hectares can be called closed.  Other companion trees like Cupressus, Pinus, Abies, Populus and other constitute a very rich ecosystem in plant species.
There is about 70 000 trees in the forest, some of which are aged between 1000 and 2000 years.  The fauna is described as unique type of ecosystem that ranges from the various types of birds 
(eagles, owls, robins, etc...) to wild animals (hyenas, boars, squirrels, snakes and bats).
Water Resources
Tannourine is enriched with the floating lakes of water. It has more than one hundred springs and water sources

Geography
Tannourine lies in a splendidly beautiful area near the mountain of the same name with a cedar forest of some 70 000 trees. The area is rocky and mountainous with sharp slopes and a deep valley (Ain El Raha). It is 92 Km away from Beirut, and 1400m altitudes.

The summer season is refreshing in this deep valley (Ain el Raha) plus other villages like: 

• Laqlouq 
• Balaa 
• Jerd Valley  
• Fahta
• Hariessa 
• Ras Binea

It includes the following villages as well:

• Tannourine Fawqa
• Tannourine Tahta
• Shateen
• Wata Houb