Me Sila (also written Msila or MSila, in Arab: المسيلة) is a town of Algérie, chief town of the Wilaya of Me Sila - regional district - in the high plateaus. Located at the center is north of the Algerian territory , it constitutes Saharan continuity. Mainly agro-pastoral Wilaya, the principal agglomerations are Me sila (the capital), Bou-Saâda, Sidi Aïssa and Ain El Melh.

It is characterized by contrasted landscapes and culinary specialities the such Chakhchoukha or, for the amateurs of prickly, the Zviti, who are at the origin of the specialities of Bou-Saâda. Many cities or villages bear this name in the whole of the world arab. With Yemen, for example, it is the name of a small town of the area of Hadramaout.

Geography

The wilaya of Me Sila has a surface of 18  175km ². It is limited by Bouira and Bordj-Bou-Arreridj to North, Batna and Sétif in the East, Médéa and Djelfa in the West and Biskra in the South. Its population is of 956  519 inhabitants. Its morphology and its geographical position confer on this area a unified ecological aspect represented by the prevalence of the Steppe which covers 1.200  000 ha (that is to say 63% of the total surface area) of the wilaya. The surface assigned to the Agriculture accounts for 15% of entire surface, devoted primarily to the cultivation of cereals, arboriculture and the truck farming.

Tourism

The wilaya of Me Sila offers many tourist sites. Bou Saada is undoubtedly the city which holds more the attention of the foreign tourists with its dunes, its palm plantations, its Médina old woman, the tomb of Nasreddine Dinet, the Ksar old man, Strong Cavignac, the Ferrero mill, the Souk of the craft industry or Zaouia d' El Hamel, place of the sanctuaries where Mohammed Ben Belgacem, founder of Zaouia Rahmania and his daughter Lalla Zineb rest.

The Kalâa of Blessed Hammad of Hammad Ibn Bologhine in Maadid, Roman ruins of khoubana and Me cif or the layers of cave paintings and the layouts of prehistoric drawings of Sidi Ameur and Ben Rour. The thermal springs of Belaribi and Hammam Dalaâ are re-elected for their beneficial effects against rheumatism, the diseases gynaecological and of the skin.

Communes

External bonds

• Wilaya of Me Sila by Landscape of Algeria: History and old photographs.