The Aures Mountains ( Arabic : جبال الأوراس , known in antiquity as Latin : Aurasius Mons ) are a subrange of the Saharan Atlas in northeastern Algeria . The mountain range gives its name to the mountainous natural and historical region of the Aures .
6-944: The Aures mountains are the eastern continuation of the Saharan Atlas . The highest peak in the Aurès mountain range is Djebel Chélia in Khenchela Province , which sits at 2,328 metres (7,638 ft). The Belezma Range is a northwestern prolongation of the Aures Mountains located where the Tell Atlas and the Saharan Atlas come together. Its main summits are 2,178 m (7,146 ft) high Djebel Refaâ and 2,136 m (7,008 ft) high Djebel Tichaou. The Atlas chain of mountains extends over 1000 kilometers in total over Northern Africa. Historically,
12-636: The Aures makes it still one of the least developed areas in the Maghreb . In eastern Algeria, the Aures is a large Berber -speaking region, home of the Chaoui people . The Chaoui eastern Berber population practices traditional transhumance , farming fixed stone terraces in the mountains where they grow sorghum , as well as other grains and vegetables. Seasonally they move their cattle to relatively warm areas in
18-664: The Aures served as a refuge and bulwark for the Berber tribes, forming a base of resistance against the Romans , Vandals , Byzantine , and Arabs along the centuries. The mountain area was also a district of French Algeria that existed during and after the Algerian War of Independence from 1954 to 1962. It was in this region that the Algerian War of Independence was started by Berber freedom fighters. The rugged terrain of
24-799: The Saharan Atlas merge in the east to join together into the Tébessa Range and the Medjerda Mountains. Bordered in the north by the Hautes Plaines , the Saharan Atlas is one of the vast plateaux of Africa , formed of ancient base rock covered by the sediment of shallow seas and alluvial deposits . Among the rivers of the Atlas, the Saharan Atlas feeds wadis . Among these are the Chelif and Touil wadis, riverbeds that contains water only during wet periods, respectively draining
30-834: The coast. The tallest peak in the range is the 2,236 m (7,336 ft) high Djebel Aissa in the Ksour Range . The Saharan Atlas includes a series of subranges: the Ksour Range in the west, the Amour Range in its central and the Ouled-Naïl Range at its eastern end. It also includes the Aurès ( Belezma ), the Hodna Mountains , the Nememcha Range and the Zab Mountains. The Tell Atlas and
36-687: The lowland valleys where they pitch tents or live in other temporary structures and tend livestock through the winter. 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
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