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Village in Gegharkunik, Armenia

Lchavan

Lchavan is a village in the Vardenis Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, located to the southeast of Lake Sevan.

Lchavan
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The place

Lchavan is a village in the Vardenis Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, located to the southeast of Lake Sevan.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lchavan

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Makenyats Vank

    Makenyats Vank is a 9th–13th century Armenian monastery located 5 kilometres south of Lake Sevan in the village of Makenis in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. The monastery was founded in 851 with the construction of the central S. Astvatsatsin Church by Prince Grigor Supan II, the son of Princess Mariam, who was also the founder of Kotavank in Nerkin Getashen, Armenia.

    3 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Lchavan

Airports
Ganja (GNJ), 88 km · Zvartnots (EVN), 103 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 108 km
  • Yerevan → Lchavan
    93 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · $13–17
  • Gyumri → Lchavan
    166 km · quickest by road, 4h 40m · $19–26
  • Ganja → Lchavan
    87 km · quickest by road, 6h 19m · $13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lchavan

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lchavan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    50 km
  2. 02
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    165 km
  3. 03
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    176 km
  4. 04
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    239 km
  5. 05
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    240 km

If you know how people move in Lchavan – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Lchavan

  • Tsovakvillage in Gegharkunik Province of Armenia3.8 km
  • Karchaghbyurvillage in Gegharkunik Province of Armenia3.8 km
  • Makenisvillage in Gegharkunik Province of Armenia3.1 km
  • Torfavanvillage in Gegharkunik Province of Armenia3.8 km