Atlas Mountains A Beginner’s Guide & Climbing Expeditions

Atlas Mountains A Beginner’s Guide & Climbing Expeditions. The Atlas Mountains are yet another Maghrebi mountain range. Approximate length is 2,500 km (1,600 mi), with segments through Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco among its stops. Mount Toubkal, the highest peak in this mountain range in southwestern Morocco, rises an astounding 4,167 meters (13,671 feet) above sea level. From the Atlantic and Mediterranean shores, the famed Sahara desert is separated by mountains. Those who live in the mountains are primarily Berber. Many species of plants and animals in the area are in danger of going extinct. Mountain vipers of the Atlas range, gazelles of Cuvier’s type, north African elephants, sheep, stags, leopards, lions, atlas macaques, and countless more species are located here.

The three succeeding stages of the earth’s geological development produced the Atlas Mountain. It is also thought that these were produced during the Alleghenian Orogeny. They were also created by the collision of Africa and America. Numerous natural resources may be found on this mountain, such as phosphate, rock salt, anthracite coal, copper, lead ore, iron ore, marble, silver, mercury, and natural gas. The four primary regions of the Atlas Mountains are the Middle Atlas, Anti Atlas, and High Atlas in Morocco. The Middle Atlas is located on the western side of the three Atlas mountain chains, which together form a sizable plateau basin that stretches eastward. The Anti-atlas originates from the Atlantic Ocean in the southwest of Morocco, and the High Atlas rises to the Moroccan-Algerian border to the west of the Atlantic coast. The Tell Atlas Range, which stretches over 1,500 km (930 mi) from Morocco through Algeria and Tunisia, and the Aure’s mountain range, which is situated in the Aures Region of Algeria and Tunisia, make up the second region. The Saharan Atlas range is located in Algeria and in the eastern portion of the Atlas mountain range.