Ouarsenis
Sign in to saveThe Ouarsenis or Ouanchariss (Berber language: ⵡⴰⵔⵙⵏⵉⵙ, Warsnis (meaning "nothing higher") Adrar en Warsnis, ) is a mountain range and inhabited region in northwestern Algeria.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Ouarsenis Range
- Mountain.other_name
- Adrar en Warsnis ⵡⴰⵔⵙⵏⵉⵙ / Ouarsnis /
- Mountain.photo
- Ouarsenis 2012, Wilaya de Tissemsilt (Algérie).jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- View of the Ouarsenis Range near Tamalehat Commune
- Mountain.highest
- Mount Sidi Amar
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 1985
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1105
- Mountain.map
- Algeria
- Mountain.map_size
- 200
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.listing
- Ribu
- Mountain.location
- NW Algeria
- Mountain.parent
- Tell Atlas
- Mountain.period
- Miocene
- Mountain.orogeny
- Alpine orogeny
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The Ouarsenis or Ouanchariss (Berber language: ⵡⴰⵔⵙⵏⵉⵙ, Warsnis (meaning "nothing higher") Adrar en Warsnis, ) is a mountain range and inhabited region in northwestern Algeria.
==Geography== The range is located at about 80 km south of the Mediterranean, between the basin of the Chelif River in the north and in the east, the Oued Mina in the west and the Sersou plateau in the south. It reaches its maximum elevation of 1,985 m at the Mount Sidi Amar, near Bordj Bounaama at about 60 km west of Tissemsilt. Other important summits are Achaoun (1808 m), Djebel Meddad (1787 m), Kef Siga (1784 m), Sra Abdelkader (1776), Ras El Brarit (1750 m), Mont Belkheiret (1620 m), Djebel Amrouna (1512 m), Mount Tamedrara, and Rond Point des Cèdres (1461 m), Rokba Atba (1300 m). The mountain range area is inhabited by Berbers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ouarsenis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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