Sebkhat Zehrez Gharbi

Zehrez Gharbi is a broad salt depression on the Algerian high plains, west of its companion basin Zehrez Chergui. Shallow pools and marshes occupy the low ground between the Atlas ranges, with no river carrying their waters to the sea. A fringe of steppe vegetation surrounds the saltier basin, and dunes border parts of the wetland. Rain and evaporation continually change the extent of water and exposed ground in this dry inland landscape.