sentences:  (جبال ‘mountains’) thus occupies the western part of the Rif mountains.The Jbala population is divided into over 40 tribes , today known as ‘rural communes’ (جماعات قروية), and adjacent to them we find a small group of nine tribes called Ghmara  (غمارة), who inhabit the territory between the line of mountain peaks to the north of Chefchaouen and the sea.In addition to tribal heterogeneity, this region is also geographically diverse.