hamada
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thumb|upright=1.3|Hamada plateau at Tademaït, [[Algeria. Photograph by French explorer Fernand Foureau during his trans-Saharan journey in 1890.]] thumb|Hamada in the interior of the Cape Verde island of Boa Vista, Cape Verde|Boa Vista. thumb|Hamada desert near the Hoggar Mountains in [[Algeria.]] thumb|Cyclists ride over hamada to the Erg Chebbi dunes, [[Morocco.]]
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thumb|upright=1.3|Hamada plateau at Tademaït, [[Algeria. Photograph by French explorer Fernand Foureau during his trans-Saharan journey in 1890.]] thumb|Hamada in the interior of the Cape Verde island of Boa Vista, Cape Verde|Boa Vista. thumb|Hamada desert near the Hoggar Mountains in [[Algeria.]] thumb|Cyclists ride over hamada to the Erg Chebbi dunes, [[Morocco.]]
A hamada (, ) is a type of desert landscape consisting of high, largely barren, hard rocky (basalt) plateaus, where most of the sand has been removed by deflation. The majority of the Sahara is hamada. Other examples are Negev desert in Israel and the in Algeria.