The wooded headland that runs out into the Mediterranean at modern Haifa — the greenest, wettest ground in the country, catching the sea rain, and so the LAST place in the land to dry out. That is the point of Amos 1:2: from the shepherds' pastures on the desert edge to 'the top of Carmel', the first thing to burn off and the last, and therefore everything in between. The name means 'garden land' or 'orchard'. It is also the mountain of Elijah's contest with the prophets of Baal, and the place where he then crouched with his face between his knees while his servant went to look at the sea seven times (1 Kings 18).