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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.
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Vinony's link graph records 311 inbound references to Oualata, and connects out to Chinguetti, Tichit and Adel Bagrou.
The entry is geolocated on the map in MR, across 3 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Archaeological sites in Mauritania, Communes of Hodh Ech Chargui region and Ksars in Mauritania.
Vinony links it to 37 Wikipedia language editions.
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 4782
- Area
- 93092
- Elevation
- 240
- Image
- Oualata 03.jpg
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- Commons category
- Oualata
- native label
- ولاته
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Description
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oualata” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (14)
On the map
3 mapped locations