The village was located on the north bank of Wadi Karkara, about 1 km south of the Lebanese border, and with a view to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

[6][7] In 1875 Victor Guérin inspected the place, which he described: "The ruins of this name are scattered over the flanks and summit of a hill, bordered on the south by the deep ravine of Wady Kerkera.

Terraces, once regulated by the hand of man and now overgrown with thick underwood, were formerly covered with dwelling-houses whose remains cumber the soil.

Besides these, the ruins of a building measuring twenty-six paces long from west to east, and twenty from north to south, deserve particular attention.

Within this ancient church are several monolithic columns half hidden by the bushes; they measure 2.50 metres in length, by thirty-five centimetres in diameter.

"[10] Petersen inspected the place in 1991, and found that the remains of the village consisted of several widely spaced rectangular houses, one storey high.