The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range stretching across the north-west of the continent of Africa about 2,500 kilometers (1.600 miles) across Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, with a peak of 4,156 meters (13,671 feet), a summit in the southwest of Morocco, The Mediterranean to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Great Sahara to the south, the Amazigh Mountains of the Atlas Mountains.
The Atlas Mountains are home to many unique plant and animal species in Africa, often similar to those in Europe, and many of these species are extinct. Some extinct species, such as the Berber macaque, are extinct, the Atlas (Africa's only species of bears , The Berber Tiger, the Berber Deer, the Barbarian Lion (extinct in the Wilderness), the Carthage Lion (extinct), the Kofar Ghazal, the North Bald Apricot, the Atlas Viper, the Atlas Cedars, the Black European Pine and the Algerian Oak. Extinction).
