Tegguiada In Tessoum

Tegguida -n- Tessoum (also Teggida n'Tessoum ) is an oasis city in Niger, about 90 km north of the town of Ingall, in the soundtrack of Talak. It consists mainly of flat-roof mud houses.

The economy in Tegguida -n- Tessoum based mainly on the production of salt, which differs in its manner of the salt flats in the oases Fachi, Seguedine and Bilma, because it is still expensive and laborious. Similar to the above oases water is evaporated, but in circular holes.

Salty soil around is mixed with saline spring water in the larger size pool first. Then, the resulting brine is poured into adjacent basins. So that a high salt concentration is produced, this process is repeated several times. In small basins finally overlaid by further evaporation from a reddish salt, which contains predominantly saline next to something Glauber's salt. This mass is formed into loaves and salt sold in Ingall or southern cattle markets as salt or exchanged for millet, sugar or other goods.