Corridor Libya

In western Tripolitania the Nafusa highlands separate the coastal plain of the Jafara from the dry plateau to the south. Their northern edge rises sharply above the plain, while inland the land opens towards the stone desert of the Hamada al-Hamra. Springs emerge where water collected in the mountains reaches the escarpment. The contrast between the northern plain and the arid plateau has long shaped the routes crossing this part of North Africa.