Chrea is a town in

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, located in

Blida Province Blida ( ar, ولاية البليدة) is a provinces of Algeria, province (''wilaya'') in Algeria. Its capital is Blida. The Chréa National Park is situated here. History The province was created from parts of Alger (department) and El Asnam d ...

Ouled Yaïch District Ouled Yaïch is a district in Blida Province, Algeria. It was named after its capital, Ouled Yaïch. Municipalities The district is further divided into 3 municipalities, one of them, ''Chréa'', is the second least populous one in the country, ...

, in a mountainous area named

Tell Atlas The Tell Atlas ( ar, الاطلس التلي, Latn, ar, al-ʾaṭlas al-tlī) is a mountain chain over in length, belonging to the Atlas mountain ranges in North Africa, stretching mainly across northern Algeria, with ends in both north-easter ...

, near Blida. It had a population of 783 in 2008. In its municipality is situated the

Chréa National Park The Chréa National Park (Arabic:الحديقة الوطنية الشريعة) is one of the largest List of national parks of Algeria, national parks of Algeria. It is located in Blida Province, named after Chréa, a town near this park. The park ...

, one of the largest national parks of the country, and a

ski resort A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports. In Europe, most ski resorts are towns or villages in or adjacent to a ski area – a mountainous area with pistes (ski trails) and a ski lift system. In North ...

. Within the national park is one of the few relict populations of the

endangered An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction. Endangered species may be at risk due to factors such as habitat loss, poaching and inva ...

primate Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including huma ...

, the

Barbary macaque The Barbary macaque (''Macaca sylvanus''), also known as Barbary ape, is a macaque species native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco, along with a small introduced population in Gibraltar. It is the type species of the ...

, ''Macaca sylvanus''; this species of primate originally had a much wider range in Northern Algeria and Morocco.C. Michael Hogan, (2008
''Barbary Macaque: Macaca sylvanus'', Globaltwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg

Geography

Climate

Located in the

Atlas Mountains The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range in the Maghreb in North Africa. It separates the Sahara Desert from the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean; the name "Atlantic" is derived from the mountain range. It stretches around through Moroc ...

, at above sea level, Chréa has a cool

Mediterranean climate A Mediterranean climate (also called a dry summer temperate climate ''Cs'') is a temperate climate sub-type, generally characterized by warm, dry summers and mild, fairly wet winters; these weather conditions are typically experienced in the ...

, with an average annual precipitation of . Summers are warm and dry and winters are chilly and wetter, with

snow Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes. It consists of frozen crystalline water throughout ...

falls. This climate is described by the

Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...

as ''Csb''. This is one of the coldest places in Algeria.

References

External links

Photos et history of Chréa
Resorts in Algeria Populated places in Blida Province Ski areas and resorts in Algeria Blida Province {{Blida-geo-stub