enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Atlas Mountains - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Mountains

    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 .

  3. Wildlife of Morocco - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_Morocco

    The country has a wide range of terrains and climate types and a correspondingly large diversity of plants and animals. The coastal areas have a Mediterranean climate and vegetation while inland the Atlas Mountains is forested. Further south, the borders of the Sahara Desert are increasingly arid.

  4. Geography of Morocco - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Morocco

    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.

  5. Saharan Atlas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saharan_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.

  6. Middle Atlas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Atlas

    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.

  7. Maghreb - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maghreb

    The Greeks referred to the region as the "Land of the Atlas", referring to its Atlas Mountains. [7] Before the establishment of modern nation states in the region during the 20th century, the Maghreb most commonly referred to a smaller area, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlas Mountains in the south. It often also included the territory ...

  8. High Atlas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Atlas

    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.

  9. Tell Atlas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Atlas

    Location of the Atlas Mountains across North Africa. The Tell Atlas (Arabic: الاطلس التلي, al-ʾaṭlas al-tlī) is a mountain chain over 1,500 km (932 mi) in length, belonging to the Atlas mountain ranges in North Africa, stretching mainly across northern Algeria, ending in north-eastern Morocco and north-western Tunisia.