Algeria
Algeria has many assets. On
the geographical level, four great types of relief following each other from the north
to the south of the territory.
Alongside the Mediterranean sea, there is a coast bordered by beaches and coves,
prolonged inside by the plain of Tell
and its valleys where is concentrated the main part of the arable lands and the
principal major cities like Algiers, Oran,
and Constantine... there are two East-West directed mountainous chains: the
Tellian Atlas formed by the mounts of
Tlemcen, Ouarsenis, Titteri, Djurdjura, Babor, Bibans and Edough which culminates in
Lalla Khadidja
(2, 308m), and the Saharian Atlas with the solid mass of Aures culminating with the mount
of Chelia (2, 328m).
In the
middle of the Atlas, a zone of semi-desert high plateaus, field of the esparto grass
and of breeding and whose profile of a
basin explains the presence of shotts (salted lakes) up to 40 meters below sea level,
the shott Melhrir. There is also the
Sahara, its rock plateaus, its arid plains, its sand areas, the great Western erg, the
great Eastern erg and its oases.
Finally, in the extreme south,
Hoggar, there is a succession of
high plateaus spread out in steps, dominated in the centre by surprising relief and the
Tahat mount, with 3 003 m which
remains the highest summit of the country, and where there are some salted lakes like
shott Ech-Chergui and shott el
Hodna... To these natural charms is added an archaeological inheritance of a great value.
Reservations
Bulgarian