Mount Chenoua

Mount Chenoua
Adrar n Cenwa / جبل شنوة

View of Mount Chenoua
Highest point
Elevation 905 m (2,969 ft)
Listing List of mountain ranges in the world named The Sleeping Lady
Coordinates 36°36′23″N 2°22′21″E / 36.60639°N 2.37250°E / 36.60639; 2.37250Coordinates: 36°36′23″N 2°22′21″E / 36.60639°N 2.37250°E / 36.60639; 2.37250[1]
Geography
Mount Chenoua

Tipaza, Algeria

Parent range Tell Atlas
Geology
Orogeny Alpine orogeny

Mount Chenoua (Arabic: جبل شنوة) (Mont Chenoua) is a mountain range in Algeria. It is located between Cherchell and Tipaza on the Mediterranean coast, just west of Algiers. There are marble quarries on the side of the mountain.

Description

There is a village on that mountain named Chenoua. A majority of its inhabitants speak a Berber language, the Chenoua language. According to local tradition the mountain range looks like a reclining pregnant woman from a certain distance.[2]

Mount Chenoua is the site of Assia Djebar's film La Nouba des Femmes du Mont-Chenoua.[3] It also features prominently in Albert Camus' posthumously published novel, A Happy Death. There is also a Stone Eagle statue that was built in 1991.

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