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The Toubkal National Park offers many attractions to visitors. Climbing to the mountain peak takes two days and offers flowery landscapes in spring and colourful forests of cedar oaks and junipers in autumn. The Berber village of Imlil, surrounded by mountains, is a stop point to immerse oneself in the dwellers' simple lives. The ecomuseum of ...
Toubkal (Arabic: توبقال, romanized: tūbqāl, pronounced), also Jbel Toubkal or Jebel Toubkal, is a mountain in southwestern Morocco, located in the Toubkal National Park. At 4,167 m (13,671 ft), it is the highest peak in Morocco, the Atlas Mountains , North Africa and the Arab world .
The High Atlas is home to the Barbary leopard (Pathera pardus panthera) and Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia).Other mammals include red fox (Vulpes vulpes), golden jackal (Canis aureus), wild boar (Sus scrofa), Barbary ground squirrel (Atlantoxerus getulus), Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata), and European polecat (Mustela putorius).
In classical antiquity, Europe was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe north of the Mediterranean, an arrangement that was adhered to in medieval T and O maps. Ptolemy's world map of the 2nd century already had a reasonably precise description of southern and western Europe, but was unaware of particulars of northern and eastern Europe.
Refuge du Plan de l'Aiguille: Mont Blanc massif: Refuge du Plan du Lac: Vanoise massif: Refuge du Prariond: Vanoise National Park: Vanoise massif: Refuge du Promontoire: Club alpin français: Massif des Écrins: Refuge du Roc de la Pêche: Vanoise massif: Refuge du Ruitor Graian Alps: Refuge du Saut: Vanoise massif: Refuge du Sélé: Club alpin ...
Senegal accepted the convention on 13 February 1976. [3] There are seven World Heritage Sites in Senegal, with a further eight on the tentative list. [3] The first site in Senegal to be inscribed to the list was the Island of Gorée, in 1978. The most recent site listed was the Bassari Country, in 2012.
Carte des peuplades du Sénégal de l'abbé Boilat (1853): an ethnic map of Senegal at the time of French colonialism. The pre-colonial states of Baol, Sine and Saloum are arrayed along the southwest coast, with the inland areas marked "Peuple Sérère".
The Thiès Region has always been occupied by the Serer people since the ancient Serers and their ancestors.However, in the pre-colonial period, more so around the 16th century, the Wolof immigrants among others have settled in. [3] [4] [5] Like the Fatick Region, the entire Thiès Region is strongly Serer and one of the most important of Serer country.