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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 .
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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
The range's highest peak is Toubkal, which is in central Morocco, with an elevation of 4,167 metres (13,671 ft). [2] The Atlas Mountains are primarily inhabited by Berber populations. [3] The terms for 'mountain' are Adrar and adras in some Berber languages, and these terms are believed to be cognates of the toponym Atlas.
High Atlas. There are two types of Alpine Climates in the High Atlas: . Mediterranean climate, dominates the north and south of the Western High Atlas until (Jbel Toubkal), as well as the northern part of Central High Atlas from Jbel Toubkal until Imilchil, owing to their exposition to the perturbations coming from the North Atlantic Ocean.
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).
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