Climate
The city of Souk Ahras has a semi continental and humid climate, heavy rains in the north in winter and very hot and dry in the south during summer. The rains are 350-750 mm/year and the temperatures vary from 1°C to 14°C in winter and from 25°C to 38°C in summer.
Fauna an Flora are very rich in Souk Ahras, we can find: Hare, Partridge, Fox, Sparrow, Ferret, Porcupine and Barbarian hart. Flora as well is very interesting:
- Cork-oak 12,000 hectares
- Zeen-oak 4,600 hectares
- Ash-tree
- Flowering ash
- Aleppo pine-tree
- Cypress-tree
- Mastic-tree
- Lavender
- Heather.
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