Tindouf

Tindouf lies in the western Sahara, in an oasis country between the Draa valley, the Saoura and the desert routes to the south. A fortified settlement stood here before the nineteenth-century town grew on the site. The surrounding basin is bordered to the south by the ancient rocks of the Réguibat ridge, and to the north by the stony wastes of the Hamada. Wells and oases punctuate the immense distances between the settled lands of the Maghreb and the Sahara.