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Tassili N'Ajjer National Park Illizi, Algeria Last Updated: 09/05/2024 |
| Tassili N'Ajjer National Park is a national park in the Sahara desert, located on a vast plateau in southeastern Algeria. Having one of the most important groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world, and covering an area of more than 72,000 km2 (28,000 sq mi). | |
| This vast area in the Sahara Desert is located on a plateau of outstanding scenic and geological interest, covered by ‘forests' of eroded sandstone. It is also a floristic and faunal island of Sahelian life in the middle of the desert, and harbours a relict Mediterranean cypress, one of the rarest trees in the world. From a cultural point of view, it has one of the largest and best preserved groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world, an immense gallery of neolithic art of international importance. More than 15,000 drawings and engravings record the climatic changes, the animal migrations and the evolution of human life on the edge of the Sahara from 8000 to circa 1500 years ago. | |
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Algeria Place » City Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in North Africa. Algeria covers an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), making it the world's tenth largest nation by area, and the largest nation in Africa. It had a population of 44 million in 2021. The capital and largest city is Algiers, located in the far north on the Mediterranean coast. 76 views 💖 1Algeria |