Key facts
- Peak
- Djebel Chélia
- Elevation
- 2,328 m (7,638 ft)
- Country
- Algeria
- Provinces
- Batna Tebessa Khenchela Oum El Bouaghi Souk Ahras Biskra
- Parent range
- Atlas Mountains
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain range
- Country
- Algeria
- Located in
- Biskra Province
- Elevation
- 2328
- Highest point
- Djebel Chélia
- Material used
- metamorphic rock
- Image
- Hammam Essalhine Aquae Flaviane Khenchela Mont View 2.jpg
- Width
- 90
- Length
- 200
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- Commons category
- Aurès Mountains
- mountain range
- Saharan Atlas
- time period
- Cretaceous
- heritage designation
- Tentative World Heritage Site
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Encyclopedic overview
The Aures Mountains (Arabic: جبال الأوراس, known in antiquity as Latin: Aurasius Mons) are a subrange of the Saharan Atlas in northeastern Algeria. The mountain range gives its name to the mountainous natural and historical region of the Aurès.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aurès Mountains” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.