Teffedest Mountains

The Teffedest Mountains are a mountain range in the southern Algerian Sahara, forming the northern foothills of the Ahaggargebirges, with a gradient from north to south ( about 120 km). Unlike the Ahaggar the Teffedest mountains is not made of volcanic rock, but light granite. The rocks are blankgescheuert by erosion and received by these different forms of smoothing. It hides diverse vegetation in the mountains. Sand dunes can be found here rarely or not at all. In the south of the mountain is the highest elevation in the Akoulmou with 2,370 m height. With a height of 2330 m of Garet el Djenoun limited ( also: Oudan ) in the north of the mountain range.

In the 1960s, was In Ekker nuclear weapons test site of the French nuclear weapons program in Algeria. Radioactive fallout contaminated the terrain and vast tracts of land.

The Teffedest mountains were within Algeria last known as the last habitat and retreat of the African wild dog ( Lycaon pictus). The wild dogs are since the 20th century in the region to be extinct.

Petroglyphs

The region is difficult to access. Nevertheless, it is occasionally visited, on the east side of the mountain because it includes a lot of the time cattle originating engravings and rock paintings. During the Cattle Period lush grasslands prevailed in this region.