{{Short description|Mountain on Mayotte, Comoro}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Mont Choungui | other_name = | image = Mont Choungui.jpg | image_caption = | elevation_m = 593 | elevation_ref = | prominence_m = | prominence_ref = | map = France Mayotte | map_relief=1 | map_caption = Location on Mayotte | label = | label_position = left | listing = | location =Near Choungui, Kani-Keli, Mayotte, French Overseas Territories | coordinates = {{coord|12|57|25|S|45|08|02|E|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | first_ascent = | easiest_route = }}

'''Mont Choungui''' ({{IPA|fr|mɔ̃ ʃuŋɡi}}) is a distinctively conical volcanic mountain in the southern part of the French island of Mayotte, in the Comoro archipelago of the western Indian Ocean. It is the second highest point of the island at {{convert|593|m|abbr=on}}, the highest being Mont Bénara, and is visible from far out at sea.<ref name="Dept1990">{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept|title=South Indian Ocean pilot: Comores, Madagascar, Seychelles Group, La Réunion, Mauritius, Chagos Archipelago, and other islands lying westward of longitude 900 East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NKoZAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=29 June 2012|year=1990|publisher=Hydrographer of the Navy|page=64}}</ref><ref name="VanamoVanamo1995">{{cite book|author1=Suomen Biologian Seura Vanamo|author2=Suomalainen Eläin- ja Kasvitieteellinen Seura Vanamo|title=Annales botanici Fennici|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hWNFAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=29 June 2012|year=1995|publisher=Societas Biologica Fennica Vanamo}}</ref> <ref name="AuziasLabourdette2008">{{cite book|last1=Auzias|first1=Dominique|last2=Labourdette|first2=Jean-Paul|title=Mayotte|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UP3GQlr5MoAC&pg=PA173|accessdate=29 June 2012|year=2008|publisher=Petit Futé|isbn=978-2-7469-1967-9|page=173}}</ref>

<gallery style="text-align:center;" mode="packed"> Image:Choungui nord.jpg|Plane view. Image:Choungui.jpg|Summit. Image:Choungui & Kani-Kéli.jpg|View from the mont, heading southward. </gallery>

==Important Bird Area== Choungui dominates the southern peninsula of the island. Its south-easternmost headland, Pointe Saziley, is 4&nbsp;km long with a sharp ridge rising to {{convert|233|m}}. Forest covers the peak and most of the catchment of the Mroni Bé river, while Sazilé is vegetated with dry shrubland and thickets containing baobabs. The {{convert|1600|ha|lk=in|adj=on}} site has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports significant populations of Comoro olive-pigeons, Comoro blue-pigeons, Mayotte white-eyes, Mayotte sunbirds and red-headed fodies. It is also home to Robert Mertens's day geckos, island day geckos and Pasteur's day geckos. Sazilé's beaches are a nesting site for green, and probably hawksbill, sea turtles.<ref name=bli>{{cite web |url= http://www.birdlife.org |title= Mlima Choungui and Sazilé|accessdate=2013-09-04 |work= Important Bird Areas factsheet |first= |last= |publisher= BirdLife International |year=2013 }}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2cfWdY6awo Video]

{{Important Bird Areas of Mayotte}}

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