Ennedi Plateau
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How it came to be
In north-eastern Chad, in the middle of the Sahara, rises the sandstone massif of Ennedi. Water and wind have cut the plateau into canyons and valleys, cliffs, natural arches and rock pillars. It covers some 60,000 square kilometres and rises to about 1,450 metres.
Permanent water in the largest canyons has long sustained plants, animals and people. Thousands of images are painted and carved on the walls of caves, shelters and canyons, one of the largest bodies of rock art in the Sahara. The art dates from around 5000 BC onwards, and much of it shows cattle.
Hunter-gatherers lived here around 5000-4000 BC, and herders from about 4000 BC. Today two semi-nomadic groups bring camels, donkeys, sheep and goats here in the rainy months. The massif was inscribed in 2016, and since 2018 African Parks has managed it with the government of Chad.
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