Babor Mountains

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Babor Range
جبل البابور

View of the Babor Range near Bouqaa
Highest point
Peak Mount Babor
Elevation 2,004 m (6,575 ft)
Coordinates 36°33′0″N 5°28′0″E / 36.55000°N 5.46667°E / 36.55000; 5.46667Coordinates: 36°33′0″N 5°28′0″E / 36.55000°N 5.46667°E / 36.55000; 5.46667
Geography
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Location Algeria
Parent range Tell Atlas

The Babor Range (Arabic: جبل البابور) is a mountain range in Algeria. The highest point of the range is 2,004 m high Mount Babor.[1]

There is a protected area in the range, the Djebel Babor Nature Reserve, known for birdwatching[2] and as one of the few relict habitats for the endangered Barbary Macaque, Macaca sylvanus.[3]

See also

References

  1. Chaîne des Babors - Larousse.fr
  2. African Birding Resources, 2008
  3. C. Michael Hogan, 2008

External links

Dahra is a low mountainous range part of the greater Tell Atlas located in Algeria and which goes from Algiers at the east throughout the coasts untill Mostaganem at the west.


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