Mount Chenoua (

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: Adrar en Cenwa, ) is a mountain range in northern

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. It is located between Cherchell and Tipaza on the

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coast, just west of

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. There are

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quarries on the side of the mountain.

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There is a village on that mountain named Chenoua. A majority of its inhabitants speak a

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, the Shenwa Berber. According to local tradition the mountain range looks like a reclining pregnant woman from a certain distance. Mount Chenoua is the site of Assia Djebar's film La Nouba des Femmes du Mont Chenoua.La Nouba des Femmes du Mont-Chenoua
/ref> It also features prominently in

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' posthumously published novel, A Happy Death. There is also a Stone Eagle statue that was built in 1991.

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