The Sea of Galilee is the name given to the freshwater Lake of Tiberias in the northeastern part of Israel, the local name is Lake Kinneret. At 215 m below sea level, the lake is the world's lowest freshwater body of water. The length of the lake is 21 km, the width is 13 km, the area is 161-169 km² depending on the water level, the greatest depth is 43 m. Tiberias.
The Sea of Galilee is Israel's main source of drinking and irrigation water, providing almost a third of the country's fresh water consumption. Here, industrial production of fish has been established, numbering 22 varieties, one of which is tilapia or St. Peter. On the shores of the lake there are hot healing springs, rich in salts and sulfur.
The Sea of Galilee is popular among Christian pilgrims, because Jesus Christ walked along its shores, here he began to preach, met his disciples and followers. Christian places are Capernaum, where Christ lived and preached,
Yardenit, where he was baptized, the Franciscan church, the monastery on the Mount of the Sermon on the Mount, the ruins of the Kursi monastery - the place of the miracle of exile demons into a herd of pigs.
At the confluence of the Jordan River, there is an amusement park "Park a Yarden".
