Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains rise in central Morocco and extend in a north-easterly direction for around 460 kilometres from their south-western terminus adjacent to the central High Atlas Mountains and Beni Mellal, between Meknes and Fes in the north and the more southerly Midelt plateau area, towards Taza, Guercif and Moulouya River in the northeast.
Reach heights of up to around 2,400 meters, the Middle Atlas Mountains, have extensive cedar forests and provide a native habitat for Morocco’s indigenous Barbary macaque. The cedar forests are said to be the largest southern Mediterranean forest and a rare remnant of a once-vast forest ecosystem stretching across Northern Africa, Spain, Turkey and Lebanon.