Hoggar

The Hoggar (of the Tamachek Ahaggar ) is a chain of Montagne S of the the Sahara in the south of the Algérie.

It is located just at the east of Tamanrasset. Its more high summit which is the mount Tahat in the center of the Atakor. It culminates with 3003 meters and dominates Algeria. A famous point is the Assekrem, to 80 km of Tamanrasset as the crow flies and easily accessible per track. Assekrem accommodated the hermitage of summer of Charles de Foucauld, which settled there in 1905.

True stone desert, Hoggar primarily consists of ic rocks Volcan. The climate is very hot there in summer, and it can freeze during the nights of winter there. The rains are limited and sporadic. Because of a climate less extreme than the remainder of the Sahara, Hoggar is an important refuge for certain animal species and vegetable. From an ecological point of view, it can be differentiated from the remainder of the Sahara.

The solid mass of Hoggar is also the ancestral ground of the group Touareg called Kel Ahaggar . Close to the town of Tamanrasset, in the Oasis of Abalessa, it is possible to find the tomb of famous the Tin Hinan, a matriarche which would be the ancestor of the Tuaregs of Hoggar. According to the legend, Tin Hinan would come from the Tafilalet, in the mountains of the Atlas, in Morocco.

The vastness of these stone extents, the striking beauty of this relief ic Volcano, with its falls of Basalt and porphyry, invites to mystical contemplation. The following the example of Charles de Foucauld, Christian hermits lived a long time in the stone huts of Hoggar.

Literature

  • Atlantis (1919) of Pierre Benoit
  • Bivouacs under the moon, volume 1: The forgotten track (1950) of Roger Clipping-Rock
  • Bivouacs under the moon, volume 2: The mountain with the writings (1952) of Roger Clipping-Rock
  • Men of the mountains of Hoggar (2005) of Odette Bernezat
  • Tefedest (1953) of Louis Carl
  • the town of salt (1954) of Louis Carl
  • the Saharas d' Algérie (2003), Guide of the exposure the Saharas d' Algérie organized by the Museum of Natural history of Paris at the time of the year of Algeria in France.
  • Hoggar - Walk botanical , (2007) Esope Workshop, of Abdallah & Rabèa SAHKI

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