Algeria Topographic

Algeria is located in North Africa. Algeria is stretching from the Moroccan border the Tell Atlas. It's stretching more than 600 kilometers eastward from the Moroccan border, the High Plateaus, steppe-like plains lying between the Tell and Saharan Atlas ranges. Higher and more continuous than the Tell Atlas, the Sahara Atlas range is formed of three massifs: the Ksour near the Moroccan border, the Amour, and the Oulad Nail south of Algiers. Eastern Algeria consists of a massive area extensively dissected into mountains, plains, and basins. In its southern sector, the steep cliffs and long ridges of the Aurès Mountains create an almost impenetrable refuge that has played an important part in the history of the Maghrib since Roman times. Near the northern coast, the Petite Kabylie Mountains are separated from the Grande Kabylie range at the eastward limits of the Tell by the Soummam River. The Algerian portion of the Sahara extends south of the Saharan Atlas for 1,500 kilometers to the Niger and Mali frontiers.Much of the remainder of the desert is covered by rocky platforms called humud, and almost the entire southeastern quarter is taken up by the high, complex mass of the Ahaggar and Tassili n'Ajjer highlands, some parts of which reach more than 2,000 meters. The Algerian highest point is Mount Tharat (3,003m), the lowest point is Chott Melrhir (-40 m) and the longest river is Chelif River (230 km).