Anti-Atlas

Anti-Atlas
الأطلس الصغير Aṭlas Mẓẓiyn
A section of the Anti-Atlas near Tafraout. The peak in the background is Djebel el Kest.
Highest point
PeakJbel Sirwa
Elevation3,304 m (10,840 ft)
Dimensions
Length800 km (500 mi) ENE/WSW[citation needed]
Width180 km (110 mi) NNW/SSE[citation needed]
Geography
Map of Northwest Africa with the Anti-Atlas in the lower left corner.
CountryMorocco
Parent rangeAtlas Mountains
Geology
OrogenyAlleghenian
Age of rockPaleozoic
Climbing
Easiest routedrive

The Anti-Atlas, also known as Lesser Atlas or Little Atlas, is a mountain range in Morocco, a part of the Atlas Mountains in the northwest of Africa.[2] The Anti-Atlas extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the southwest toward the northeast, to the heights of Ouarzazate and further east to the city of Tafilalt, altogether a distance of approximately 500 km. The range borders on the Sahara to the south.[2]

In some contexts,[2] the Anti-Atlas is considered separate from the Atlas Mountains system, as the prefix "anti" (i.e. opposite) implies.

  1. ^ Google Earth
  2. ^ a b c "Anti-Atlas" (or Jebel Saghru), The Encyclopædia Britannica, 1910.