El Amra, in Arabic: العامرة (the full, opulent) ("crown of agriculture" 2), until the decree of 2 January 1976, is a municipality of the wilaya Of Aïn Defla in Algeria, located about 15 km north-west of Aïn Defla.

El Amra is a region of plains to the south, but of mountain and forest in the north with Djebel Tsili Mount (798 m) and Mount Djebel Mechta Anneb (1118 m) which are part of the central mass of the Dahra and the Forest of Oued El Khemis.

In Antiquity it was occupied by the Mazices tribes of the region Which played a part in the constitution of the pre-Roman Berber kingdoms.

The most important Roman ruin is that of the fort 'Gargra' one and a half kilometers east of the city.

By mistake it was improperly attributed to that of 'Tigava' and 'Tiganda' which are two twin sites to the right and left of the cheliff, west of the present town of Attafs.

After Algerian independence in 1963, during the territorial reorganization of the communes, Kherba, part of the department of Orléansville and the borough of Duperré, is attached to Mekhatria (Teghaniout fraction not included).

On the occasion of the inauguration of the Agricultural Socialist Village (VSA), or more commonly El Qaria, Kherba officially changed its name to become El-Amra[3] by deliberation of the Communal People's Assembly on 23 July 1975.

Then came Abel Béné, Henri Vagnon, Jean Bourgoin in 1898, François Charpillet, 1901-1906-1910, Eugène Chaillet, Albert Vignon, André Eugène, Louis Vagnon 1921, Of Couderc in 1922, Louis Vagnon, of Eugène Bès, and Marcel Canillac at independence The municipality of El Amra is primarily agricultural.