Anti Atlas
The Anti Atlas region of Morocco covers the mountain range all the way down to the border with Western Sahara.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Guelmim and Taroudannt.
Guelmim
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Guelmim is a city in the Anti Atlas region of Morocco. Known as the "Gateway to the Desert," Guelmim is a convenient starting point for experiencing the desert. Guelmim is also known for its market, and its camel market.
Taroudannt
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Taroudannt is a market town in Southern Morocco about 72 km inland from Agadir. The city is pretty unspoiled by tourism without the many touts that define Marrakech.
Tiznit
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Tiznit or Tiznet is a town in the west coast of the Moroccan region of Souss-Massa, founded in 1881 by Alawi Sultan Hassan I. It is the capital of Tiznit Province and recorded a population of 74,699 in the 2014 Moroccan census.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Sidi Ifni and Tan-Tan.
Sidi Ifni
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Sidi Ifni is a fishing town in the northern coastal part of Anti Atlas built by the Spanish in Art Deco style. It's a very calm and relaxed town – a place to go if Essaouira and Chefchaouen look too crowded for you.
Tan-Tan
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Tan-Tan is a city in Tan-Tan Province in the region of Guelmim-Oued Noun in southwestern Morocco. It is a desert town with a population of 73,209. It is the largest city in the province and second largest city in the region after the capital Guelmim.
Tarfaya
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Tarfaya is a coastal Moroccan town, located at the level of Cape Juby, in western Morocco, on the Atlantic coast. It is located about 890 km southwest of the capital Rabat, and around 100 km from Laayoune and Lanzarote, in the far east of the Canary Islands.
Tafraoute
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Tafraout, also Tafraoute is a town in Tiznit Province, Souss-Massa region, Morocco. Situated in the central part of the Anti-Atlas mountains, a mountain range in Morocco which is part of the Atlas Mountains in the northwest of Africa, the town has a population of 4,931 at the 2004 census.
Akka
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Akka is a town in Tata Province, Souss-Massa, Morocco. According to the 2004 census it had a population of 7,102. It contains old buildings such as the Mohaddin building in Kasabat-sidi Abdellah Ben M'Bark.
Mirleft
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Mirleft is a small town and rural commune in Sidi Ifni Province of the Guelmim-Oued Noun region of Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 7026 people living in 1303 households.
Legzira
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Legzira is a small beach resort 10 km north of Sidi Ifni, Morocco.
Anti Atlas
- Type: Mountain range
- Description: mountain range
- Also known as: “Anti-Atlas”, “Pequeño Atlas”, and “Petit Atlas”
- Location: Souss-Massa, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
30.1185° or 30° 7′ 7″ northLongitude of center
-8.2715° or 8° 16′ 18″ westElevation
1,552 metres (5,092 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 5073378123OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_rangeGeoNames ID
2557676Wikidata ID
Q574853
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Anti Atlas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الأطلس الصغير”
- Basque: “Antiatlasa”
- Bulgarian: “Антиатлас”
- Catalan: “Anti-Atles”
- Catalan: “Antiatles”
- Cebuano: “Anti-Atlas”
- Chinese: “安蒂-阿特拉斯地区”
- Chinese: “小阿特拉斯山脈”
- Czech: “Antiatlas”
- Danish: “Antiatlas”
- Dutch: “Anti-Atlas”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الاطلس الصغير”
- Esperanto: “Anti-Atlaso”
- Finnish: “Anti-Atlas”
- French: “Anti Atlas”
- French: “Anti-Atlas”
- Georgian: “ანტიატლასი”
- German: “Anti-Atlas”
- German: “Antiatlas”
- Greek: “Αντιάτλας”
- Hebrew: “אזור הרי האטלס הדרומי”
- Indonesian: “Anti Atlas”
- Indonesian: “Anti-Atlas”
- Italian: “Anti Atlante”
- Japanese: “アンティアトラス山脈”
- Kabyle: “Aṭlas ameẓyan”
- Ladin: “Anti-Atlas”
- Latvian: “Antiatlass”
- Lithuanian: “Antiatlasas”
- Moroccan Arabic: “الأطلس الصغير”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لأطلس الصغير”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Antiatlas”
- Persian: “اطلس کوچک”
- Polish: “Antyatlas”
- Portuguese: “Anti Atlas”
- Portuguese: “Anti-Atlas”
- Portuguese: “Antiatlas”
- Romanian: “Munții Anti-Atlas”
- Russian: “Анти-Атлас”
- Russian: “Антиатлас”
- Slovak: “Antiatlas”
- Slovenian: “Antiatlas”
- Spanish: “Anti-Atlas”
- Swedish: “Anti-Atlas”
- Tachelhit: “Aṭlas amẓyan”
- Tachelhit: “Aṭlas Mẓẓin”
- Turkish: “Anti-Atlas Dağları”
- Ukrainian: “Антиатлас”
- Upper Sorbian: “Antiatlas”
- Urdu: “اطلس صغیر”
- Venetian: “Anti Atlante”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Anti Atlas”. Photo: Helge Høifødt, CC BY-SA 3.0.