Sights and monuments: Ksar Baghai (palace of the Kahina) Chelia djebel (2328m), spas of Hammam Salihine and Hammams Knif.

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Dry continental climate with chutes of snow in winter  : zones mountainous and high plains to the north of the wilaya, steppe zone to the south.

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Known of the time of the Roman under the name of Musculla

It was occupied by the Vandals and the Byzantine.

In the city of Khenchela we can find the castle built by the queen of the El-Kahina mountains( Beghay), mentioned by Ibn

Khaldoun in his writings, is the cradle of the Berber tribes notably the Hraktas and Memchas.