mist-belt

Noun

mist belt (plural mist belts)

1. A region at middle altitude that is regularly misty, as opposed to the areas above and below.
   • In the mountains that run parallel to the SW shores of the Red Sea from S.E. Egypt to the “Horn” of Africa, Cape Gardafui (i.e. over a distance of some 2,650 km), there is a more or less continuous mist belt between 600 and 1,800 m elevation, depending on local conditions.2008, Henry N. Houérou, Bioclimatology and Biogeography of Africa, →ISBN, page 52