Kaouar

The Kaouar Valley (also: Kawar valley) is a valley in the Tenere Desert in the West African Niger. The Kaouar valley runs north to south and is about 160 kilometers long.

In the up to 100 meters deep off-road ratio of Kaouar are, from north to south, the oasis sites Seguedine (salt production ), Aney, Dirkou and Bilma (salt production). In the south, towards Lake Chad, the Kaouar Valley will be completed by the Great Sandy Desert of Bilma with about 300 transverse dunes trains. From the north go Seguedine sandy slopes in a north-easterly direction over Madama, by the plateau of Djado, Libya and in a northwesterly direction to the approximately 140 km from the medieval city of ruins Djado and the near-by Chirfa them. In the northern extension of the Kaour Valley, this well-known for its prehistoric petroglyphs Enneri Blaka.