The Tizguit Valley is a river-cut landform in the Middle Atlas mountain range, in the Fès-Meknès region of

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

. Much of the valley is characterised by

basalt Basalt (; ) is an aphanite, aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the planetary surface, surface of a terrestrial ...

ic rock. This valley is associated with forested areas that may provide

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for the

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Barbary macaque The Barbary macaque (''Macaca sylvanus''), also known as Barbary ape, is a macaque species native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, along with a small introduced population in Gibraltar. It is the type species of the genus ' ...

, '' Macaca sylvanus'', a primate that

prehistoric Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use o ...

ally had a much wider range in northern Morocco.C. Michael Hogan. 2008

References

* C. Michael Hogan. 2008
''Barbary Macaque: Macaca sylvanus'', Globaltwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg
* J.J. Macaire and C. Cocirta. 1994. ''Basalt Weathering and Fluvial Sedimentary Particles: Comparison of Two Watersheds in the Middle Atlas Mountains, Morocco'',

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. Volume 64a.

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