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The Hautes Plaines ("High Plains", ), also known in French as Hauts Plateaux, is a steppe-like natural region located in the Atlas Mountains in northern Algeria. It stretches more than in an east northeast – west southwest direction from northeastern Morocco to the Aures. It is a high plateau area consisting of undulating, steppe-like lying between the Tell Atlas and Saharan Atlas ranges.
The plateau area is covered by alluvial debris formed when the mountains eroded. An occasional ridge projects through the alluvial cover to interrupt the monotony of the landscape. Les Hautes Plaines algéro-marocaines et le Maroc central
Water collects during the wet season on its level terrain, forming large shallow salt lakes which become salt flats as they dry. The largest of such lakes is the Chott Ech Chergui with a length of about 160 km located in the central section of the plains. Magdi Masgidi & Shafi Noor Islam, Wetlands Management in Algeria: A Case Study on Chott Ech Chergui. The Hodna region, with the Chott el Hodna lies at the eastern end of the Hautes Plaines.
The main towns of the plateau are Bordj Bou Arreridj, Sétif, Tiaret, Djelfa and M'sila. The limits of the plains are not clearly defined, but administratively the territory falls within the following Algerian provinces:
Agriculture includes grazing of sheep and goats on grass in better-watered high plateau areas and the cultivation of some crops such as dry-land barley. Les hautes plaines steppiques
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