Aures Mountains

The eastern Aurès is a country of ridges and deep valleys at the edge of the Saharan Atlas. The Oued el Arab separates the main massif from the Jebel Cherchar to the east, while the high ground gives way southward to the dry basin of Chott Melrhir. Chaoui communities have long inhabited the mountains, cultivating fields and gardens in the valleys and moving livestock between mountain and lowland pastures with the seasons.