Er Raoui

The Er Raoui corridor follows the Saoura, a south-western Algerian valley whose course is defined by the Oued Saoura. At Igli, the Guir and Zouzfana combine to form the main watercourse. From there the depression runs through a chain of oasis settlements: Béni Abbès, Tamtert, El Ouata, Béni Ikhlef, Kerzaz, Timoudi, Ouled Khoudir and Ksabi. These places mark a sequence of valley oases rather than continuous ribbon development.

The line of oases ends at Sebkha el Melah, an endorheic lake where drainage has no outlet to the sea. That final basin makes the corridor a closed landscape of episodic water, dry channels and salt flats. Its settlements sit along a remembered river course that still shapes movement across an otherwise arid region.