Atlas Mountains stretching from the Maghreb to continue its series of high peaks and green to Tunisia through Algeria, where Algeria is divided into two sections, north and south, these mountains and a milestone in the Arab countries, they represent the barrier between the Sahara and the coastal cities on the Mediterranean Sea. Atlas is the geology of the two phases. Vae was the first of which is the composition of the east while the combined and simultaneous with the formation of the European Alps. Are many fertile valleys between the chains is due to Atlas of such areas of rain by the high peaks that derive water clouds. The trees and cedar trees, in particular, cover more parts of the Atlas, but today, naked in some places due to neglect and its divisions and parts
This series of mountain peaks up to very high altitudes, but there are areas in these mountains is composed by masses of snow, and established tourism and sports for those who like to ski in the transition between two different climate, where the dry desert to a hundred kilometers of the area snow and skiing. Atlas Metals many stores need to be based Ptadenha. Including: gold, silver, zinc, lead, iron, magnesium, phosphates and petroleum. The inhabitants of the Atlas Mountains combination Berber population, but constitute a majority of the population of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco and Algeria in some areas while the majority of Arabs in Tunisia.
Extend to these mountains and the main paved roads cut across the north and south between the cities of the Kingdom of Morocco is located on the coast and the desert cities in the interior. These roads pass through beautiful areas of Western tourists, reminding them, but one of their tips for lovers of nature, the crossing of these roads gives the traveler or tourist the opportunity to see the beauty of nature that are not available in the European mountains. The tourists can to make this trip a number of ways, all available to visitors of Morocco.
There are regular tours, the movement of tourists from the city of Marrakech, passing through the coastal areas of these mountains, to enjoy the tourist to discover the natural treasures of Morocco, Valfallt, springs, and villages scattered throughout the mountains, in nature, and nature of people in modest homes, and animals that are the means of transport in these villages mountain, is part of the painting, which remains in the minds of tourists and a long memory. And has lived in the roof of the world, and the so-called accommodation in hotels in the Atlas Mountains.
The risk of the falling rocks, especially in the melting of the ice, where he is building in some seasons, the snow over the tops of the mountains which makes the solubility Falls cause strong, Bandfalla conducted with rocks and dust, blocking the roads that are usually poorly maintained. Reflects the mountains every year hundreds of tourists, adventurers, and Fbor climb the Atlas Mountains is not the difficulty or impossibility, but a medium-difficulty climbing compared with the Alps and the Himalayas. And climbing the mountains does not need experience or special equipment, all that needs climbing energetic and active and take up, and the health of at least accept the terms of the pressure rises, the level of oxygen and light, which requires adaptation for a period of time, and the corridors of these mountains are well known to climbers, and in some parts, especially near the villages, There are some peasants who are viewing the transfer of the climbers to the next stage of Hamiarham known as the road, and welcomes Balsaih.