Mauritania
Adrar Region
Atar

Ben Amera

Ben Amera is Africa's largest monolith, rising 633 metres above the desert floor. It is the world's second largest monolith, after only in .
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 633 metres
  • Description: mountain
  • Also known as: “Benamera” and “Guelb Ben ‘Amira”

Ben Amera

Latitude
21.23003° or 21° 13′ 48″ north
Longitude
-13.66437° or 13° 39′ 52″ west
Elevation
633 metres (2,077 feet)
Open location code
7CH868JP+27
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2152567098
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
7394350
Wiki­data ID
Q430848
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Ben Amera” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بن أميرة”
  • Arabic: “بن عميرة”
  • Cebuano: “Guelb Ben ‘Amîra”
  • Cebuano: “Guelb Ben ’Amîra”
  • Croatian: “Ben Amera”
  • Czech: “Ben Amera”
  • Dutch: “Ben Amera”
  • Esperanto: “Ben Amera”
  • Finnish: “Ben Amera”
  • French: “monolithe de Ben Amira”
  • French: “Monolithe de Ben Amira”
  • Galician: “Ben Amera”
  • German: “Ben Amera Berg”
  • German: “Bin Amira”
  • German: “Monolith of Ben Amera”
  • Hungarian: “Ben Amera”
  • Italian: “Ben Amera”
  • Japanese: “ベン・アメラ”
  • Ladin: “Ben Amera”
  • Lithuanian: “Ben Amera”
  • Polish: “Ben Amera”
  • Russian: “Бен-Амера”
  • Spanish: “Ben Amera”
  • Swedish: “Guelb Ben ‘Amîra”
  • Swedish: “Guelb Ben ’Amîra”
  • Venetian: “Ben Amera”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ben Amera”. Photo: Les3corbiers, CC BY-SA 3.0.