Lehfed

Lehfed (Arabic: لحفد, also known as Lihfid) is a municipality in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon.

Lehfed has an average elevation of 1000 meters above sea level and a total land area of 542 hectares.

[1] Its population, consisting of 2400 inhabitants, 950 of them being electors, is predominantly Maronite Catholic.

The families native to Lehfed are Nehmé, Ghanem, Abi Khalil, Khalil, Mhanna, Khaled, Khoury, Ziadeh, Saadeh, Challita, Daou, Fadel, Matar and Nohra.

The families of Nehmé, Ghanem, Matar and Daou are descended from Moussa Al-Ghassani, a native of Al-Nabek, Syria and a descendant of the Ghassanid tribe.