FRICA

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-Tamara Martnez
-Eva Martnez - Brigith Prez
Pirmides de Egipto

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PHYSICAL MAP OF FRICA

Relief features:
-. The average elevation of the continent approximates closely to 600 m ,above sea level, roughly near to the mean elevation of both North and South America.

- Apart from the lowlands and the Atlas mountain range, the continent may be divided into two regions of higher and lower plateaus.

RELIEF OF FRICA
CAPE AND SOLID : 1. Atlas. 2. Tibesti Massif. 3. Rwenzori Mountains 4. Ethiopian highlands. 5. Drakensber Mountain. 6.Aharaggar Mountains RIVERS : 1. Nile 2. Senegal 3. Niger 4. Congo 5. Zambezi 6. Limpopo 7.Orange

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SEAS AND LAKES : 1. Red Sea 2. lake Chad 3. lake Nyasa 4. lake Tanganyika
DESERT AND VALLEYS : 1. Rift valley 2. Kalahari Desert 3. Sahara Desert 4.Congo Basin ISLAND: 1. Madagascar. VOLCANO: 1.Mount Kenya. 2. Mount Kilimanjaro.

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Atlas Mountains
-The Atlas Mountains is a mountain range across the northwestern stretch of Africa extending about 2,500 km through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The highest peak is Toubkal, with an elevation of 4,167 metres. The Atlas ranges separate the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines from the Sahara Desert.

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ATLAS MOUNTAIN
Peak :Toubkal. Elevation :4,167 m. 2 Subranges of the Atlas Mountains 2.1 Middle Atlas range 2.2 High Atlas 2.3 Anti-Atlas ranges 2.4 Saharan Atlas range 2.5 Tell Atlas range 2.6 Aurs mountain range

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NILE RIVER
-The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa .The White Nile is longer and rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, with the most distant source still undetermined but located in either Rwanda or Burundi. It flows north through Tanzania, Lake Victoria, Uganda and South Sudan.

NILE RIVER
Blue Nile Falls - Beauty of Ethiopia.

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THE SAHARA DESERT

-The Sahara is the world's hottest desert, the third largest desert it covers most of North Africa.The Sahara stretches from the Red Sea, including parts of the Mediterranean coasts, to the outskirts of the Atlantic Ocean.

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SAHARA DESERT :

9.065.000 km

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LAKE CHAD
Lake Chad is in Africa, the size of which has varied over the centuries. Lake Chad is economically important, providing water , of the Sahara Desert. It is the largest lake in the Chad Basin.

LAKE CHAD:

MADAGASCAR ISLAND
Madagascar is an island in the Indian. Ocean off the eastern coast of southern Africa, east of Mozambique. It is the fourth largest island in the world. The highest point is Maromokotro, in the Tsaratanana Massif region in the north of the island, at 2,876 Metres.

MADAGASCAR ISLAND

Village in the central highlands.

MOUNT KILIMANJARO
Kilimanjaro, with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is a dormant volcanic mountain in Kilimanjaro National Park, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. It is the highest mountain in Tanzania, the highest mountain in Africa and the highest freestanding mountain in the world at 5,895 metres above sea level.

MOUNT KILIMANJARO
Mount Kilimanjaro from the air

5,895 metres