Hippos was built on a flat-topped foothill 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of and 350 metres (1,150 ft) above the Sea of Galilee, 144 metres (472 ft) above sea level, near modern Kibbutz Ein Gev.[4] The site is just on the Israeli side of the 1949 UN-demarcated ceasefire line between Syria and Israel.