Kaouar
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Official name | Oasis du Kawar |
| Designated | 16 September 2005 |
| Reference no. | 1495[1] |
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The Kaouar (or Kawar) is a series of ten oases in the southern Sahara in northeast Niger, covering about 75 km (50 mi) from north to south, and 1–5 km (0.62–3.11 mi) east to west. They are on the eastern edge of the Ténéré desert, between the Tibesti Mountains in the east and the Aïr Mountains in the west and between the Fezzan in the north and Lake Chad in the south.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. They lie on the leeward side of a 100-meter-high north–south escarpment and easterly winds striking the escarpment provide easy access to groundwater for the oases.[citation needed]
Running south to north, Bilma, Dirkou, Aney and Séguédine are the largest towns.
The Kaouar oases are famous for salt and date production, and were along the route of the great Bornu to Fezzan caravan trail. This was the major point of contact between the African Sahel and the Mediterranean civilisations until the 19th century. Numerous archeological sites and rock paintings attest to human habitation here reaching back some 10,000 years to when the area was surrounded by lush grasslands.
In 1997, the Kaouar was submitted as a tentative candidate for UNESCO World Heritage Site status as part of The salt route from Air to Kaouar.[2] The oases have been designated as a Ramsar site since 2005.[1]
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Oasis du Kawar". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ^ UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Tentative Lists Database, La Route du Sel de l'Air au Kaouar.
Bibliography
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Decalo, Samuel (1979). Historical Dictionary of Niger. London and New Jersey: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1229-0.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Geels, Jolijn (2006). Niger. Bradt London and Globe Pequot New York. ISBN 1-84162-152-8.
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Vikør, Knut S. (1996). The Oasis of Salt. The History of Kawar, a Saharan Centre of Salt Production. London.
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External links
- Image galleries from the Kaouar.
- A traveler's experiences in the Kaouar, February-March 2001.
- Traveler's experiences in the Kaouar, by Tony and Elly van Gastel.
- Photo gallery from the Ténéré and the Kaouar.
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