Adrar des Ifoghas

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Adrar des Ifoghas

The Adrar des Ifoghas is a sandstone

Sandstone

Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock Particle size . Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust ....
massif

Massif

In geology, a massif is a section of a planet's Crust that is demarcated by geologic faults or flexures. In the Plate tectonics, a massif tends to retain its internal structure while being displaced as a whole....
in Mali

Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked nation in West Africa. Mali is the seventh largest country in Africa, bordering Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the C?te d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west....
's Kidal Region

Kidal Region

Kidal is the eighth administrative region of Mali, covering 151,430 square kilometer. Its capital is the city of Kidal....
, having an area of about 250,000 km².

The area is characterized by wide, shallow valleys, and is strewn with piles of eroded granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of Intrusion , felsic, igneous rock rock . Granite has a medium to coarse texture, occasionally with some individual crystals larger than the groundmass forming a rock known as Porphyry ....
blocks. The massif's valleys open to the Tamesna plain on the east, to the Telemsi fosse on the west, to the western basin of the Azaouak valley on the south, and to the Tanezrouft

Tanezrouft

The Tanezrouft is one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara desert. It is situated on the border between Algeria and Mali, west of the Hoggar mountains....
on the north. Cities of the area include Kidal

Kidal

Kidal is a Tuareg city in northern Mali. It is the capital of Kidal Region and of Kidal Cercle....
, Aguel'hoc

Aguel'hoc

Aguelhok or Aguel'hoc is a Communes of Mali in the north of Mali's Kidal Region that serves as the seat of its Arrondissements of Mali, in the Cercle of Tessalit.As of 1998 the commune had a population of 3,111....
, Boughessa, Essouk

Essouk

Essouk or Tin-Essako is a village, Communes of Mali and Cercles of Mali in Mali's north-eastern Kidal Region.As of 1998 the entire cercle and commune had a total population of 935.This makes the area the least populated cercle in Mali, because of its hot Sahara Desert extreme climate....
, and Tessalit

Tessalit

Tessalit is a city in Mali's Kidal Region. The town is both a Communes of Mali and the capital of Tessalit Cercle . As of 1998 the commune had a total population of 2,533....
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The Adrar des Ifoghas is known locally as "Adagh"; "Adrar" is the Berber word for mountain, while "Ifogha" is the name of an aristocratic Tuareg

Tuareg

The Tuareg are a nomadic pastoralist people. They are the principal inhabitants of the Saharan interior of North Africa. They call themselves variously Kel Tamasheq or Kel Tamajaq , Imuhagh, Imazaghan or Imashaghen , or Kel Tagelmust, i.e., "People of the Veil"....
clan, "Kel Ifoghas," who have dominated the region for generations.

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The Adrar des Ifoghas is a sandstone

Sandstone

Massif

Mali

Kidal Region

Granite

Tanezrouft

Kidal

Kidal is a Tuareg city in northern Mali. It is the capital of Kidal Region and of Kidal Cercle....
, Aguel'hoc

Aguel'hoc

Essouk

Tessalit

Tuareg

Nomad

Nomadic people, , also known as nomads, are communities of people who move from one place to another, rather than Settler in one location....
ic, raising camel

Camel

Camels are even-toed ungulates within the genus Camelus. The dromedary, one-humped or Arabian camel has a single hump and is well known for its healthy low fat milk, and the Bactrian camel has two humps....
s, goat

Goat

The domestic goat is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep: both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae....
s, and sheep

Sheep

#REDIRECT Domestic sheep...
for sustenance and for sale.

The area is rich in archaeological remains, particularly rock drawing

Petroglyph

Petroglyphs are s created by removing part of a Rock surface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images....
s which depict men hunting, farming, and cattle-rearing ; the skeleton of Asselar man

Asselar man

Asselar Man is a neolithic skeleton discovered by Theodore Monod and M.V. Besnard in 1927, in the Adrar des Ifoghas, near Essouk in what is now Mali's Kidal Region....
was also found in the area by Théodore Monod

Théodore Monod

Th?odore Andr? Monod was a France naturalist, explorer, and humanist scholar. In the course of his career, Monod was made director of the Institut d'Afrique noire, professor at the Mus?um national d'Histoire naturelle, member of the Acad?mie des sciences d'outre-mer in 1949, member of the Acad?mie de Marine in 1957, and mem...
. In recent years, the Adrar des Ifoghas has also become popular for treks

Hiking

Hiking is an outdoor activity which consists of walking in natural environments, often on trail. It is such a popular activity that there are numerous :Category:Hiking organizations worldwide....
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