Taoudenni
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thumb|275px|Slabs of salt from the mines of Taoudenni stacked on the quayside at the port of Mopti
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Place details
- Region
- Taoudénit
- Country
- Mali
- Population
- 3,019
- Timezone
- Africa/Bamako
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Taoudenni
- Settlement.other_name
- Tawdenni
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mali
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Mali
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Taoudénit
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Taoudenni
- Country
- Mali
- Located in
- Taoudénit Region
- Population
- 3436
- Elevation
- 293
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
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- located in/on physical feature
- Tanezrouft
- Commons category
- Taoudeni
- native label
- Taoudenni
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Salt mining
- Prison
- Climate
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
thumb|275px|Slabs of salt from the mines of Taoudenni stacked on the quayside at the port of Mopti
Taoudenni (also Taoudeni, Taoudénit, Taudeni, , ) is a remote salt mining center in the desert region of northern Mali, north of Timbuktu. It is the capital of Taoudénit Region. The salt is dug by hand from the bed of an ancient salt lake, cut into slabs, and transported either by truck or by camel to Timbuktu. The camel caravans (azalai) from Taoudenni are some of the last that still operate in the Sahara Desert. In the late 1960s, during the regime of Moussa Traoré, a prison was built at the site and the inmates were forced to work in the mines. The prison was closed in 1988.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Taoudenni” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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