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Place details
- Locality
- الكويرة La Güera
- Country
- República Árabe Saharaui Democrática الجمهورية العربية الصحراوية الديمقراطية
- Population
- 3,127
- Timezone
- Africa/El_Aaiun
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Key facts
- Un non self governing territory
- Western Sahara
- Administering power
- Spain ( de jure )
- Claimed by
- Morocco , Sahrawi Republic
- Controlled by
- Mauritania (de facto)
- Founded
- 30 November 1920
- Total
- 87.8 km (33.9 sq mi)
- Density
- 42.4/km (110/sq mi)
- Time zone
- GMT
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ghost town
- Official name
- الكويرة
- Country
- Western Sahara
- Elevation
- 2
- Image
- Laguera view.jpg
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- twinned administrative body
- Crevillent
- Commons category
- Lagouira
- territory claimed by
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- native label
- بير الذئب
- inception
- 1920-11-30
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Encyclopedic overview
La Güera (Arabic: الڭويرة al-Gūwayra; also known as La Agüera, Lagouira, El Gouera) is a ghost town on the Atlantic coast at the southern tip of Western Sahara, on the western side of the Ras Nouadhibou peninsula which is split in two by the Mauritania–Western Sahara border, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of Nouadhibou. It is also the name of a daira at the Sahrawi refugee camps in south-western Algeria.
It is the southernmost town of Western Sahara. La Güera is situated about 65 kilometres (40 mi) south of the Moroccan Wall at Guerguerat and is technically abandoned.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Güera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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