Kuwaykat (كويكات)

Place

Museum of the Palestinian People (MPP)

Place Name

Kuwaykat (كويكات)

Place Description

A historic Palestinian village on a slightly elevated hill in the eastern part of the Acre plain, surrounded by agricultural land and connected to the regional road network. Agriculture was the principal livelihood, with cereals and irrigated or plantation crops occupying most of the village lands; in 1944/45, 3,316 dunums were devoted to cereals and 1,246 dunums to irrigated or plantation land.