High Atlas

The central High Atlas rises above Morocco’s Tadla plain, with high ridges and deep valleys carrying water northward. The M’goun massif towers over the Aït Bouguemez valley, where villages and cultivated terraces occupy the mountain floor. Streams from the range feed the Oued el Abid and other tributaries of the Oum er-Rbia. The mountains separate the fertile northern plain from the drier country beyond their southern slopes.