MASCARA
State Description:
Geographical location
The city of Mascara is located in the northwestern region of Algeria and it occupies both the Saint Hipotte Plateau (currently Mamouni) and the low Ghriss plain, which extends to the south to the Jurassic sections of SAIDA mountain The sea with 585 AD passes in the middle of the Todman Valley or the Ain Sultan Valley, whose residents are nourishing with drinking water, and it is fair to two parts: east and western before it is absent in the city of Asfal in one of the narrow and deep gorges..
The area in which the city of Mascara is located between the plateaus, the mountains and the plain, while the plateaux is the most important of which is between a Mascara and Al Bordj.
Including the Mamounia plateau, which rises from the sea, by 687 m, and the mountains are not tall and the highest peaks are above the mountain of Chareb Errih (910 m), the mountain Qalal (808 m) and Mount Tamdara (729 AD), and Mount Menaouer (697 AD), either Ghriss plain, which runs along 55 km from the southwest to the northeast, with a width exceeding 20 km, and a high level of the sea ranges at 450 and 500 m, with a total area of 147,000 hectares, the city of a Mascara that supervises it, and within this famous plain there are gatherings An important population, including: the city of Tighennif, and the city of Ghriss can define the area that is under the influence and services of the city, and it exchanges influence with the following natural features: Mountain Menaouer in the east and Mount Karsout in the west, north, and river of Al -Beniane in the south.
Currently, a Mascara oversees 60% of the total area of Beni Chograne, or about 220,000 hectares of a total of 330,000 hectares, and in this way Mascara and its suburbs will be an integral part of Beni Chograne, and for the mandate of Mascara – currently- shared borders with six states: Oran and Access to it be via Sig (NR 06), Sidi Bel Abbas via Bouhnafiya (NR 17), Mostaganem via Mohammadia (NR.17) and via Tiaret (NR14), Tighennif (NR01), Relizane (NR04 an 07),
The state is also available on an important internal road linking various municipalities and villages to each other and the state capital, including state roads, municipality and rural.
