19 Facts About Tibesti Mountains

Tibesti Mountains are a mountain range in the central Sahara, primarily located in the extreme north of Chad, with a small portion located in southern Libya.

The central third of the Tibesti Mountains is of volcanic origin and consists of five volcanoes topped by large depressions: Emi Koussi, Tarso Toon, Tarso Voon, Tarso Yega and Tousside.

Tibesti Mountains, which means "place where the mountain people live", is the domain of the Toubou people.

The isolation of the Tibesti Mountains has sparked the cultural imagination in both art and literature.

Tibesti Mountains are named for the Toubou people, written Tibu or Tubu, that inhabit the area.

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Basement of the Tibesti Mountains is composed of granite, diorite and schist, one of six exposures of Precambrian crystalline rock in North Africa.

The phases of erosion and sendimentation are indicative of the climate alternating between dry and wet conditions, the latter of which fostered vegetation in the Tibesti Mountains that was likely significantly denser than that which exists today.

Tibesti Mountains climate is substantially less dry than that of the surrounding Sahara Desert, but rainfall events are highly variable from year to year.

Flora in the Tibesti Mountains is Saharomontane, mixing Mediterranean, Sahara, Sahel and Afromontane vegetation.

Bats are heavily represented in the Tibesti Mountains, including the Egyptian mouse-tailed bat, Egyptian slit-faced bat and the trident bat .

The eastern half of the Tibesti Mountains is cut off from the western half, and the eastern village of Aozi is accessible from Libya via Ouri.

The Tibesti Mountains then played the role of an impregnable mountain stronghold for the newcomers.

Several clans with traditions similar to those of the Donzas of the Borkou region, south of the Tibesti Mountains, settled in the range in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The increased migration has increased drug traffic, with the Tibesti Mountains lying along the trans-Saharan smuggling route for South American cocaine destined for Europe.

Many Tibesti Mountains residents have been able to purchase goods such as cars, televisions and satellite telephones that they could not otherwise afford.

The Tibesti Mountains art is unique in the Sahara because of the absence of inscriptions, the relative lack of chariots, and the low representation of camels and horses until comparatively recently.

Tibesti Mountains have inspired several contemporary works of art and literature.

In 1989, French painter and sculptor Jean Verame used the natural surroundings of the Tibesti Mountains to create multidimensional land art works by painting rocks.

Tibesti Mountains range was featured in the 1958 short story "Le Mura di Anagoor" by the Italian novelist Dino Buzzati.