Assekrem is a high plateau
[ in the ]Hoggar Mountains
The Hoggar Mountains ( ar, جبال هقار, Berber: ''idurar n Ahaggar'') are a highland region in the central Sahara in southern Algeria, along the Tropic of Cancer. The mountains cover an area of approximately 550,000 km.
Geography
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, rising from the larger Atakor plateau[ Assekrem is within Ahaggar National Park.][ The maximum altitude of the plateau is .][
The hermitage of ]Charles de Foucauld
Charles Eugène de Foucauld de Pontbriand, Viscount of Foucauld (15 September 1858 – 1 December 1916) was a French soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnographer, Catholic priest and hermit who lived among the Tuareg people in the Sahara in Alg ...
, which continues to be inhabited by a few monks, is at the top of the Assekrem plateau.[
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References
Sahara
Plateaus of Africa
Landforms of Algeria
Geography of Tamanrasset Province
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