Nouamghar
Sign in to saveNouamghar (or Nouâmghâr) is a coastal village and rural commune in the Dakhlet Nouadhibou region of western Mauritania. The village is 150 kilometers north north-east of the capital Nouakchott and is located at the entrance to Cape Timiris.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Nouamghar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Commune and village
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mauritania
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Mauritania
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Dakhlet Nouadhibou
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Chami
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 7,899
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2023
- Settlement.population_total
- 1,553
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of Mauritania
- Country
- Mauritania
- Located in
- Dakhlet Nouadhibou
- Population
- 4151
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- History
- Population
- References
Nouamghar (or Nouâmghâr) is a coastal village and rural commune in the Dakhlet Nouadhibou region of western Mauritania. The village is 150 kilometers north north-east of the capital Nouakchott and is located at the entrance to Cape Timiris.
It is a traditional and active fishing port where ancient fishing techniques are used in which dolphins are used to surround and bring schools of fish closer to the coast and then they are caught in nets prepared for this purpose. The origin of this cooperation between people and dolphins is unknown.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nouamghar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations