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The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range in the Maghreb in North Africa. It separates the Sahara Desert from the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean ; the name "Atlantic" is derived from the mountain range, which stretches around 2,500 km (1,600 mi) through Morocco , Algeria and Tunisia .
The High Atlas, also called the Grand Atlas, is a mountain range in central Morocco, North Africa, the highest part of the Atlas Mountains. The High Atlas rises in the west at the Atlantic Ocean and stretches in an eastern direction to the Moroccan- Algerian border.
It is part of the Atlas mountain range, a mountainous region with more than 100,000 km 2, 15 percent of its landmass, rising above 2,000 metres. The Middle Atlas is the northernmost and second highest of three main Atlas Mountains chains of Morocco. To south, separated by the Moulouya and Um Er-Rbiâ rivers, lies the High Atlas.
The Saharan Atlas (Arabic: الأطلس الصحراوي) is a range of the Atlas Mountain System.It is located mainly in Algeria, with its eastern end in Tunisia.Although not as tall as the High Atlas of Morocco its summits are more imposing than the Tell Atlas range that runs parallel closer to the coast.
To the northwest, the Atlas Mountains, covering the Mediterranean coast for Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. On the windward side of the Atlas Mountains, the warm, moist winds blowing from the northwest off the Atlantic Ocean which contain a lot of water vapor, are forced to rise, lift up and expand over the mountain range. This causes them to ...
Berber village in the Atlas mountains Prominent Berber ethnic groups include the Kabyles —from Kabylia , a historical autonomous region of northern Algeria—who number about six million and have kept, to a large degree, their original language and society; and the Shilha or Chleuh—in High and Anti-Atlas and Sous Valley of Morocco—who ...
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The terrain of Morocco is largely mountainous. The Atlas Mountains stretch from the central north to the southwest. It expands to about 1,350 kilometres (840 mi) and is the dorsal spine of the country. To the north of the Atlas Mountains, there are the Rif Mountains, a chain that makes part of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Andalusia, Spain.