Teffedest mountains

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The highest peak in Teffedest (Algeria) is the Garet el Djenoum - meaning in Arabic: "Mountain of Spirits"
Center: The Teffedest Mountains

The Teffedest Mountains are a mountain range in the southern Algerian Sahara and form the northern foothills of the Ahaggar Mountains , with a direction from north to south (about 120 km). Unlike the Ahaggar, the Teffedest Mountains are not made of volcanic rock, but of light granite . The rocks have been rubbed clean by erosion and have been given different shapes by this smoothing. Diverse vegetation is hidden in the mountains. Sand dunes are rarely or not found here. In Akoulmou, at an altitude of 2370 m, is the highest point in the south of the mountains . At an altitude of 2330 m, the Garet el Djenoun (also: Oudan ) delimits the mountain range in the north.

In the 1960s, the In Ekker nuclear weapons test site was part of the French nuclear weapons program in Algeria . Radioactive fallout contaminated the site and large swathes of land.

The Teffedest Mountains were recently known within Algeria as the last habitat and refuge for the African wild dog ( Lycaon pictus ). The wild dogs have been considered extinct in the region since the 20th century. Cheetahs are said to have been sighted occasionally.

Rock art

The region is difficult to access. Nevertheless, it is visited occasionally, as it houses a lot of engravings and rock paintings from the cattle era in the east of the mountain side . Lush grasslands dominated this region during the cattle season.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emilio Scotto, s. Lit.
  2. ↑ a b Birgit Agada, Adolf Schuster, Algeria: Culture and nature between the Mediterranean and the Sahara p. 244 ff.
  3. ↑ A Report from the Sahelo Saharan Interest Group - Parc National de l'Ahaggar Survey, Algeria (March 2005), Part 5: Using Molecular Genetics to study the Presence of Endangered Carnivores (Nov.2006) .

literature

  • Emilio Scotto, The Longest Ride: My Ten-Year 500,000 Mile Motorcycle Journey, MotorBooks / MBI Publishing Company, 224 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7603-2632-0 , ISBN 978-0-7603-2632-9
  • Abalessa In: Hellmut Brunner, Klaus Flessel, Friedrich Hiller (Hrsg.): Lexicon Old Cultures. Vol. 1. Meyers Lexikonverlag, Mannheim 1990, ISBN 3-411-07301-2 , p. 10.

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