Oualata
Sign in to savethumb|right|305px|Trade routes of the Western Sahara Desert c. 1000–1500. Goldfields are indicated by light brown shading: Bambuk, Bure, Lobi, and Akan. Oualata or Walāta () (also Biru in 17th century chronicles) is a small oasis town in southeast Mauritania, located at the eastern end of the Aoukar basin. Oualata was important as a caravan city in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries as the southern terminus of a trans-Saharan trade route and now it is a World Heritage Site.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Oualata
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Commune and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Oualata 03.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of the town looking in a southeasterly direction
- 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_name
- Mauritania
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Hodh Ech Chargui
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 93,092
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2023 census
- Settlement.population_total
- 4,782
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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thumb|right|305px|Trade routes of the Western Sahara Desert c. 1000–1500. Goldfields are indicated by light brown shading: Bambuk, Bure, Lobi, and Akan. Oualata or Walāta () (also Biru in 17th century chronicles) is a small oasis town in southeast Mauritania, located at the eastern end of the Aoukar basin. Oualata was important as a caravan city in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries as the southern terminus of a trans-Saharan trade route and now it is a World Heritage Site.
The whole Oualata commune has a total size of , mostly consisting of desert. The main town is located in the south of the commune.