Grand Erg Occidental

The Great Western Erg ( sand sea known as Western, French Grand Erg Occidental) is an erg, that is a sea of ​​sand in the Sahara desert, in northern Algeria and the second largest after the Great Eastern Erg. It is located south of the Monts of Ksour and the Saharan Atlas to the west, the Hamada du Guif connects.

He it extends over about 600 km from Beni Abbes and Timoudi in the southwest up to Laghouat and Ghardaia in the Northeast, its width is about 250 km. Is roughly bordered the Great Western Erg in the west and northwest of the National Road 6, east of National Highway 1 and to the south of the National Road 51 The area in between is deserted and there are no villages or roads exist.

Swell

  • Francis Tack, Paul Robin: Dunes: Sand Seas of the deserts. National Geographic 2003, ISBN 3-934385-96-6, pp. 199ff

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  • Geography (Algeria)
  • Desert in Africa
Béni Abbès Ghardaïa
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