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Tibesti Mountains · Chad
Emi Koussi
Emi Koussi is a massive pyroclastic shield volcano at the southeastern end of the Tibesti Mountains in the Sahara Desert, and at 3,447 m it is the highest point in the Sahara and in Chad. Its summit holds a nested double caldera roughly 12 km wide, once inhabited by the Tibu people.
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