The term shatout refers to the wide rocky areas interspersed with low basins in which water collects during the winter in the form of marshes or small oases. The Al-Shattout plateau is one of the features of the surface (terrain) that is found in the countries of the Maghreb, and is confined between mountain ranges called the Atlas Mountains, which extend along the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea in northern Africa and the Atlantic Ocean.
The plateaus are high and wide rocky lands, whose rocks are dominated by the type of hard igneous rocks, and are covered by layers of limestone rocks formed on their surface by erosion factors through ancient geological times.
The Shattout Plateau is confined between parallel mountain ranges extending from the east of the Arab Maghreb to its west with Milan towards the southwest. These mountains are known as the Atlas Al-Tal Mountains and extend up to the Algerian-Moroccan border. The water is in basins that form a natural phenomenon called sabkhas, and the salinity rate in its water rises due to evaporation in the summer, and the plateau is interspersed with small mountain peaks that divide it into smaller plateaus.
the climate
The plateau, like the rest of the region, is dominated by the Mediterranean region in general, which is characterized by heavy winter rains, snowfall, and mild and dry summers. The northern and western mountain slopes are also affected by moist winds coming from the Mediterranean or the Atlantic Ocean. As for the southeastern regions, dry winds blow over them because they are located in the rain shadow area, as the high mountains block the rainy winds from reaching them, and whenever we go to the south of these plateaus and mountains, the desert climate prevails.
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The Kingdom of Morocco is considered one of the richest Arab countries in water due to the large number of its rivers, especially in the northern regions, as the northern regions receive large amounts of rain and snow that feed the groundwater that feeds the running rivers, and large numbers of rivers spread in the region, including what is short and its mouth is in the internal regions, which are the sewers Mountain water, in the plains and plateaus, these rivers run for long distances, most of them pouring into the Mediterranean Sea, as they depend on mountain water reservoirs such as the Malawiya rivers, the Chleif River, and the Majrada River.
Vegetation
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