About Tunisia Tourism National Parks
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Page 1 of 2 The National park of Sidi Toui
Natural heritage
Flora:
Vegetable cover varies according to altitudes and
from the exposure. One finds today in the park the various groupings of
the steppe, and the vegetation grows rich in the beds by the rocky
wadis, becoming increasingly abundant. The park mainly shelters
Anthyllis sericea and Gymnocarpos decander, but also the sparte, the
esparto, and the jujube tree. Periploca laevigata, single in Tunisia,
and Zizifus lotus are also present in the park, where actions of
reintroduction envisage a repopulation by the Acacia raddiana, Rhus
tripartitum, Calygonom and still Genista saharae. |
Belonging to the landscape of the steppes of the Eastern Sahara, the park of Sidi Toui, located at the North of the natural area of Ouara, is to approximately 50 km in the South of Ben Guerdane and to 20 km of the North-western border of Libya. In addition, it is to approximately 150 km hardly, of the splendid island of Jerba and the Peninsula of Zarzis.
The
park is made of a mountainous solid mass of altitudes varying between
45 and 172 meters, of steppes and dune formations. But the most
interesting remainder the fact that the sea of Muschelkalk had covered
this area, approximately 200 million years ago and its sandstone and
marine limestone deposits have today a thickness of meadows of 130
meters. One finds there fossils of gastropods, cephalopods, fish and
reptiles. The sirocco blows in any season on this area. The aridity of
the site conditions the nature of the flora which pushes there and the
fauna which is able to live there.
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