Ifrane National Park

Ifrane National Park
Hiking trail in Ifrane National Park
Coordinates: 33 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  N , 5 ° 14 ′ 0 ″  W.
Location:	Ifrane , Morocco
Surface:	518 km²
Founding:	2004

The Ifrane National Park ( in Arabic المنتزه الوطني إفران, DMG al-muntazah al-waṭanī Ifrān , Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⴼⵔⴰⴳ ⴰⵏⴰⵎⵓⵔ ⵏ ⵉⴼⵔⴰⵏ Afrag Anamur n Ifran ) is a national park in Morocco .

location

The nature park, which consists of several separate parts, is located in central Morocco, northwest, east and south of the city of Ifrane on the western edge of the Middle Atlas . The two extinct volcanic craters of Jbel Hebri and Jbel Mischliffen are located in the south of the national park .

National park

The park covers 518 square kilometers and is home to the largest cedar and holm oak forests in Morocco. It is also an important refuge for Barbary macaques . A total of 37 species of mammals and around 140 bird species live in the national park; The Berber deer, which was reintroduced in 1990, is one of the first . The park also includes two small mountain lakes ( Dayet Aoua and Aguelmam Afennourir ) and several smaller waterfalls ( cascades ) near the village of Zaouia d'Ifrane .

Web links

• Parc National d'Ifrane - Center d'Echange d'Information sur la Biodiversité du Maroc
• Waterfalls at Zaouia d'Ifrane - photo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Macaca sylvanus in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2006. Posted by: Butynski et al. , 2000. Retrieved May 11, 2006.