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The Atlas Mountains (Kabyle: Iurar n leṭles, Arabic: جبال الأطلس ‎) is a mountain range across a northern stretch of Africa extending about 2,400 km (1,500 miles) through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The highest peak is Jbel Toubkal, with an elevation of 4,167 metres (13,671 ft) in southwestern Morocco. The second highest mountain is the M'Goun of 4,071 metres (13,356 ft). The Atlas ranges separate the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines from the Sahara Desert. The population of the Atlas Mountains are mainly Berber tribes in Morocco and kabyles in Algeria. The terms for 'mountain' in some Berber languages are adrar and adras, believed to be cognate with the toponym.

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  • The Sahara portion of this range begins in Morocco & extends into Algeria
  • Toukbal is the highest point in this range, the traditional territory of the Berbers
  • This mountain system that extends across North Africa has its eastern terminus at Cape Bon in Tunisia
  • This mountain system in NW Africa is actually an extension of Europe's Alpine system
  • The wild horned aoudad, or Barbary sheep, lives in the Aures & these northern African mountains
  • Chelia and Toubkal are 2 of the peaks in this mountain chain of North Africa
  • In Arabic this North African range is called Djezira El-Maghreb, or "Island of the West"
  • At 13,665 feet, Mount Toubkal is the highest peak in this range in Africa
  • The Aures Mountains of Algeria are a part of this greater chain
  • At about 14,000 feet, the highest peak in this mountain chain is Morocco's Mount Toubkal
  • Give me this Northwest African mountain range & I'll give you a book of the same name where you might see it
  • Jebel Musa, a promontory in this mountain range, is one of the Pillars of Hercules
  • As this mountain range crosses Morocco, it separates the coastal plains from the Sahara
  • Look in a book of maps & you might find this mountain range that extends from Tunisia to Morocco

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