Map showing the location of the Atlas Mountains across North Africa

The Saharan Atlas of Algeria is the eastern portion of the Atlas Mountains. Algeria ( ar [[Arabic]] الجزائر, Al Jaza'ir ælʤæˈzæːʔir Amazigh: ⴷⵥⴰⵢⴻⵔ Dzayer) officially the People's The Atlas Mountains ( Kabyle: Idurar n leṭles جبال الأطلس) is a Mountain range across a northern stretch of Africa extending about 2400 Not as tall as the Grand Atlas of Morocco they are far more imposing than the Tell Atlas range that runs closer to the coast. High Atlas, also called the Grand Atlas Mountains (الاطلس الكبير and Haut Atlas is a Mountain range in central Morocco Morocco (المغرب "al-Maghrib" officially the Kingdom of Morocco (المملكة المغربية is a country located in North Africa The Tell Atlas (الاطلس التلي is a mountain chain over 1500 kilometers in length belonging to the Atlas mountain ranges in North Africa, stretching from The tallest peak in the range is the 2236 m high Djebel Aissa.

The Saharan Atlas includes a series of shorter ranges: the Amour, Ksour and Ouled-Naïl Mountains. The Tell Atlas and the Saharan Atlas merge in the east to join together into the Tébessa and Medjerda mountains.

The Saharan Atlas is one of the vast plateaus of Africa, formed of ancient base rock covered by the sediment of shallow seas and alluvial deposits. ^[1]

Among the rivers of the Atlas, the Saharan Atlas feeds wadis. Wadi (وادي) (also Vadi) is traditionally a valley In some cases it can refer to a dry riverbed that contains water only during times of heavy rain Among these are the Chelif and Touil wadis, riverbeds that contains water only during wet periods, respectively draining the Amour and Ouled-Naïl ranges of the Saharan Atlas. Chelif River (وادي الشلف Wadi ash-Shalif) {also Cheliff} is a 700 km long river in Algeria and also the longest one in the country ^[1]

The Saharan Atlas Mountains mark the northern edge of the Sahara Desert. The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى aṣ-ṣaḥrā´ al-kubra, "The Great Desert" is the world's largest hot Desert and the world's second largest The mountains see some rainfall and are better suited to agriculture than the plateau region to the north. In Geology and Earth science, a plateau, also called a high plateau or tableland, is an area of highland, usually consisting Today most of the population of the region are Chaoui Berbers. The Chaouis are a Berber people who live mainly in the Aurès Region and Aurès Mountains. Berbers are the indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. The mountains have also long been home to exiles expelled from the fertile coastal regions. The Sahara desert is one of the largest in the world.

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