The village is located between 1100 and 1600 meters above sea level in the western steep slopes of Mount Lebanon, in the Matn al-A'la area, 36 kilometers to the east of Beirut.

[5] Qornayel is considered one of the most prominent summer villages in Lebanon, in the pre-war years a large number of residents of coastal villages intended to spend the summer in Qornayel.

After the war, Qornayel attracted a large number of Gulf tourists who came to Qarnayel to spend the summer vacation, and many of them had owned residential apartments in the village.

[10] Thus the name Qornayel, contrary to any jurisprudence, is the full name of the god, in its original Phoenician language, and it became in Greek “Kronos”.

On the ruins of the Phoenician temple, the Romans built a temple for their god Jupiter, the ruins of which are still at the southern entrance to the town, in the place known as “Al-Muhawatah,” meaning “the Walled One.” There is no doubt that this name has a connection to its relics.