Saguia el Hamra

Saguia el Hamra (Arabic الساقية الحمراء as- Saqiya al - hamra ', DMG as- Sāqiya al -Hamra ʾ, the red river bed '), together with Río de Oro is one of the areas from which the former Spanish province (until 1969: Colony ) Western Sahara (Sahara Occidental) was. It makes the northern part of 26 ° to 27 ° from 50 'north latitude, which has an area of ​​about 82,000 km ².

Its name dates back to Saguia el Hamra, a wadi, which accumulates during the rainy season near the capital El Aaiun to a lake, without reaching the 25 kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean.

The Cape Boujdour became the starting point of the boundary line to the southern neighboring province of Río de Oro.

Among the most important settlements counts next to El Aaiun further inland also also still standing under Moroccan administration Smara in the homonymous province. Similarly to the one already lying near the Algerian border and thus already in the so-called of the independence movement Polisario Front liberated areas provisional capital of Bir Lehlu proclaimed as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic independent State.

  • Region in Africa
  • Geography (Western Sahara)
DIN 31635 Boujdour Province Es Semara Province Bir Lehlou
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