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Name | Aures |
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Photo | localisation_aures.svg |
Elevation | Chelia |
Location | Algeria Tunisia |
Range | Aures |
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The Aurès (Amazigh: Awras; Latin: Aurasium, ), or Aurea, refers to an Amazigh language-speaking region in East Algeria, as well as an extension of the Atlas mountain range that lies to the east of the Saharan Atlas in eastern Algeria and northwestern Tunisia. Not as tall as the Grand Atlas Mountains of Morocco, the Aurès mountains are far more imposing than the Tell Atlas range that runs closer to the coast. The highest peak, at 2328 m, is the Djebel Chélia in Khenchela Province.
Standing alone in eastern Algeria, the Aurès mountains represent one of the less developed areas in the Maghreb. The Shawia (eastern Berber) population practices traditional transhumance, farming fixed stone terraces in the mountains where they grow sorghum, other grains, and vegetables, but seasonally moving livestock to relatively warm areas in the lowland valleys where they pitch tents or live in other temporary structures and tend livestock through the winter.
Category:Atlas Mountains Category:Mountain ranges of Africa Category:Mountain ranges of Algeria Category:Mountains of Tunisia
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