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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 .
Toubkal National Park is a national park in the High Atlas mountain range, 70 kilometres from Marrakesh in central-western Morocco. Established in 1942, it covers an area of 380 km 2 . Jbel Toubkal is the highest peak of the park at 4,167 metres.
Name Range Photograph Height Prominence (m) Isolation (km) Co-ordinates Observations Toubkal: High Atlas: 4,165 metres (13,665 ft) 3755 2078 Highest point in North Africa
Toubkal, at 4,167 metres (13,671 ft), in Toubkal National Park. There are 11 national parks in Morocco. Toubkal National Park, established in 1942, is the oldest [1] and by far the most visited. [2] The parks are situated rather well in-line, [3] so it already allows wildlife migration to some extent. The only missing component in this wildlife ...
The High Atlas in central Morocco rises in the west at the Atlantic coast and stretches in an eastern direction to the Moroccan-Algerian border. It has several peaks over 4,000 m (13,000 ft), including the highest summit in North Africa, Toubkal (4,167 m or 13,671 ft), and further east Ighil m'Goun (4,071 m or 13,356 ft), the second major ...
This is a list of the highest summits located in the ... Country Highest Summit Height Comments 1: Morocco: Toubkal: 4,165 meters: 2: Morocco: Ouanoukrim: 4,089 ...
The range includes Jbel Toubkal, which at 4,167 m (2.589 miles; 13,671 ft) is the highest in the range and lies in Toubkal National Park. The range serves as a weather system barrier in Morocco running east–west and separating the Sahara from the Mediterranean and continental zones to the north and west.
Jamish Brown, Climbing in the Atlas Mountains, The Alpine Journal, 2002, pp. 81–91. Des Clark, Mountaineering in the Moroccan High Atlas, Cicerone, 2011 Bernhard Lindahl, Local History of Ethiopia, 2005/2008 (for verification of names)