Official Name: | Zeda Sakara |
Native Name: | ზედა საქარა |
Pushpin Map: | Georgia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Zeda Sakara in Georgia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Georgia |
Subdivision Name1: | Imereti |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Zestafoni Municipality |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2014 |
Population Total: | 2099 |
Timezone: | Georgian Time |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Coordinates: | 42.1425°N 43.0664°W |
Elevation M: | 300 |
Zeda Sakara (Georgian: ზედა საქარა) is a community in the west of Georgia, about 40 km to the southeast of Kutaisi at an elevation of about 264 m, in the Zestaponi District.The village is about 1 km to the east of Kveda Sakara.
The psychologist and philosopher Dimitri Uznadze was born in this village in 1886.[1]
The Sakara Testing Station of Horticulture, established in 1932, had many varieties of apples and pears.[2] There are also many varieties of local Georgian grapevine.[3] The Sakara Viticulture and Winemaking Scientific-Research Station plays an important role in developing viticulture in the Zestafoni Region.There is tourist potential: Zeda Sakara has a castle that dates to the 11th century.[4]