Key facts
- Etymology
- Berber Chenaliph
- Native name
- وادي الشلف ( Arabic )
- Country
- Algeria
- Cities
- Mostaganem Chlef Aïn Defla Médéa
- Source
- Boughezoul
- Mouth
- Mediterranean Sea
- Length
- 725 km (450 mi)
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Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Chelif River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Mediterranean Sea
- watershed area
- 44035
- origin of the watercourse
- Atlas Mountains
- basin country
- Algeria
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Encyclopedic overview
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Chelif River (Arabic: وادي الشلف) (also spelled Chéliff, or Sheliff) is a 700-kilometre-long (430 mi) river in Algeria, the longest in the country. It rises in the Saharan Atlas near the city of Boughezoul, flows through the Tell Atlas and empties into the Mediterranean Sea north of the city of Mostaganem. The water level in the river often fluctuates. The river is being used for irrigation (mainly on its lower course).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chelif River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.