It is between the Nevėžis and Dotnuvėlė rivers, by the road to Krekenava and Vilnius-Šiauliai railway.

There are Babėnai park and pond, oil repository, old cemetery, Holocaust place and the old Daukša oak tree.

Babėnai (as Babyne) is mentioned the first time in the Hermann von Wartberge chronicle.

At the 16th century Babėnai parcel was mentioned as an estate of Daukša family.

[2] Babėnai is a home place of famous Lithuanian writer, priest, educator Mikalojus Daukša (born between 1527 and 1538).