The mountainous interior of south Sinai contains Egypt’s
highest mountain, Jebel Katarina (8,625 feet, or 2,629 meters),
or Mount Catherine. Another prominent peak is Jebel Musa
(7,524 feet, or 2,293 meters), widely believed to be the Biblical
Mount Sinai. Sinai’s alpine topography accounts for relatively
high precipitation and a variety of plant and animal life.
These mountains sustain about half of Sinai’s roughly 1,000
plant species, which, in turn, make up 40 percent of the total
flora of Egypt. Many are endemic, meaning they are found
nowhere else in the world. Mammals include foxes, gazelles,
and hyenas, but leopards were hunted to local extinction in the
1900s. With its more abundant water and vegetation, Sinai has
an even larger population of pastoral nomads than does the
Eastern Desert. Chapter 4 introduces them and Egypt’s other
diverse peoples.
highest mountain, Jebel Katarina (8,625 feet, or 2,629 meters),
or Mount Catherine. Another prominent peak is Jebel Musa
(7,524 feet, or 2,293 meters), widely believed to be the Biblical
Mount Sinai. Sinai’s alpine topography accounts for relatively
high precipitation and a variety of plant and animal life.
These mountains sustain about half of Sinai’s roughly 1,000
plant species, which, in turn, make up 40 percent of the total
flora of Egypt. Many are endemic, meaning they are found
nowhere else in the world. Mammals include foxes, gazelles,
and hyenas, but leopards were hunted to local extinction in the
1900s. With its more abundant water and vegetation, Sinai has
an even larger population of pastoral nomads than does the
Eastern Desert. Chapter 4 introduces them and Egypt’s other
diverse peoples.
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