MONOGRAPH OF THE WILAYA

WILAYA Of CHLEF

ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION

Number of Daïras : 13.

Number of communes : 35.

DAIRAS	COMMUNES
Chlef	Chlef-Sendjas-Oum Drou
Oued Fodda	Oued Fodda-Beni Rached-Ouled Abbes
El Karimia	El Karimia -Harchoun -Beni Bouatteb
Zeboudja	Zeboudja -Benairia -Bouzghaia
Ouled Fares	Ouled Fares-Chettia-Labiadh Medjadja
Boukader	Boukader-Oued Sly –Sobha
Ouled Ben Aek	Ouled Ben aek -El Hadjadj
Ain Merane	Ain Merane -Herenfa
Taougrit	Taougrit -Dahra
Ténès	Ténès -Sidi Akkacha -Sidi Abderrahmane
Abou el Hassen	Abou el Hassen-Talassa-Tadjena
El Marsa	El Marsa-Moussadek
Beni Haoua	Beni Haoua-Breira-Oued Goussine

DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION AND SURFACE

The wilaya account a population of 1098166 inhabitants. (Estimate) with an total surface area of 4074 km2.

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION (Relief Climate…)

The wilaya of Chlef is located in the Such Westerner at 200 km (up to 300 km for the communes of the North-West) at the west of Algiers. It is delimited 4:

· In north, by the Mediterranean;

· In the south, by the wilaya of Tissemsilt;

· In the east, by the wilayas of Ain Defla and Tipaza;

· In the west, by the wilayas of Mostaganem and Relizane.

RELIEF

The wilaya is formed by four geographical units:

A Mediterranean coast extending on 120 km;
The chain of Dahra in north;
Mounts of Ouarsenis in the south;
The plain of Cheliff enters the two mountainous units.

CLIMATE

The wilaya is characterized by a sub-wet Mediterranean climate in the Northern part and a continental climate in the South, cold in winter and heat in summer.

HYDROGRAPHY

Chelif is most important water court, it crosses Wilaya of the East to the West. Wilaya has two stoppings Oued Fodda and Sidi Yakoub.

PLUVIOMETIE

Average annual pluviometry is: 40,06 mm per month.

TEMPERATURE

The temperature reaches its maximum in August with more 38,80°C in summer, its minimum in January with +06,1°C in winter.

NATURAL SOURCES

AGRICULTURE

the agricultural activity is dominating dant the wilaya of chlef from the ferlility of its arable lands whose plains extend until the wilaya from relizane.

Arboriculture appears in the foreground, in particular by the culture of orange, and various the varieties of vegetables.

ECONOMIC POTENTIALITIES

ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURES, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL

HIGHWAY NETWORK

Composed primarily by:

- Trunk roads : 304 Km

- Ways of Wilaya : 560 Km

- Communal Ways: 1878.80 Km

EDUCATION

The wilaya has elementary schools, middle schools and colleges as well as TCP, NISTP and additional TCP.

HEALTH

The wilaya has hospital, polyclinics and treatment rooms.

POTENTIALITIES AND TOURIST ACTIVITIES

On the cultural level, the wilaya brought its batch to the enrichment of civilization arabo-Moslem woman, in the writings and lesson of the scholars and scientists such as Ibrahim Ibn Yekhlef Ibn Abdessalem Abou Eshak El Tensi, Mohamed Ibn Abd El Djallil, Abou Abdellah El Tensi, Abou El Hassen Ibn Yekhlef El Tensi, rustic Sidi Me hamed Ben bahloul, Ali El Medjadji (940-1002 H), Abderrahman El Medjadji.

HISTORIC

The territory of the wilaya was very in the past inhabited, as the vestiges testify some to various prehistoric eras. The seniority of the Berber settlement is marked at the exit of the Neolithic era Ténès (Kertes) was a counter created by Phéniciens in VIIIème century before J.C.

The coastal region and the plains were subject to the Carthaginian influence. In IIIème century before J.C, the wilaya was with the borders of the kingdoms Amazigh Massaesyle and Massyle, undergoing the domination sometimes one, sometimes of the other, until the unification of Numidie by Massinissa. Already before the direct occupation, the Romans with the emperor Auguste Octave found after 33 years before J.C - a colony with Ténès (karténna) with veterans of the II ème Roman Région.

With Juba II, it was the agricultural source of richness for Maurétanie Cesarean. The Roman occupation touched the coast and the plains; the mountain tribes of Dahra and Ouarsenis remained independent. The town of Chlef (Castellum Tingitanum) was a military camp to supervise these savage tribes. A basilica was built there with the III ème century after J.C, with the holy bishop Réparatus.

At the 5th century after J.C, the territory of Wilaya constituted the main component of the kingdom independent Amazigh of Ouarsenis (Djeddars).

With Futuhates of Islam, the Moslems conquered the area between 675/.682 after J.C (53/62 the hégire) under the command of the military chief Abou El Mouhadjir Dinar. Populated by the tribes Zenâta and Meghraoua mainly, it passed successively under the authority of B' nor Rostom, Beni Obeide, of Beni Hammad, Mourabitine, Mouahidine and finally of Beni Ziane. At the beginning of I0éme century, Ténès accommodated a strong immigration of Andalusians. With the decline of the kingdom of Blessed Ziane, Ténès became a republic independent with Moulay Ben Abdellah and Hamid El Abd of the Arab tribe of Sawade before being invaded by the Spaniards, then delivered by the brothers Turkish Aroudj and Kheir Eddine in 1517.

During the Turkish time, the area was subjected and divided into several administrative units (Dar El Soltan for Ténès and the coast, Beylick of Titteri for the East part and beylick of the West for the remainder with Khalifa of Cheliff).

After 1830 the area underwent the French occupation after a savage resistance (carried out in the plains by the Emir Abdelkader and represented with dignity in Dahra and Ouarsenis by Mohamed Ben Abdellah says Boumaaza and after massacres of population perpetrated by the generals sanguinary and sadly famous (saint Arnaud, Pelissier, Cavaignac…) and in the enfumades of the caves of Dahra which are perennialized by colonial tables of paintings.

During the revolution armed of November 1st, 1954, the wilaya of chlef belonged to the second area of the wilaya IV and contributed by the sacrifice of its worthy sons to the release of the country and independence.