Richat Structure
The Richat Structure, or Guelb er Richât, often called the Eye of Africa is a prominent circular geological feature at the northwestern edge of the Taoudeni Basin, on the Adrar Plateau of the Sahara.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Depression with an elevation of 423 metres
- Description: circular feature in the Sahara desert
- Also known as: “Er Rîchât”, “Eye of Africa”, “Eye of the Sahara”, “Guelb er Richât”, “Richate”, and “The Eye of Africa”
Richat Structure
- Categories: rock formation and landform
- Location: Adrar Region, Mauritania, Sahel, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Richat Structure” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تكوين الريشات”
- Arabic: “حفرة الريشات”
- Arabic: “عين الصحراء”
- Arabic: “قلب الريشات”
- Armenian: “Ռիշատ”
- Belarusian: “Структура Рышат”
- Bulgarian: “Структура Ришат”
- Catalan: “Estructura de Richat”
- Cebuano: “Guelb er Richât”
- Chinese: “理查特結構”
- Chinese: “理查特结构”
- Czech: “Oko Sahary”
- Dutch: “Guelb el-Richat”
- Dutch: “Guelb er-Richat”
- Dutch: “Richat Structuur”
- Dutch: “Richatstructuur”
- Esperanto: “strukturo Riŝat”
- Finnish: “Richatin rakennelma”
- French: “Dôme de Richat”
- French: “Guelb er Richat”
- French: “L’oeil de l’Afrique”
- French: “Oeil de l’Afrique”
- French: “Œil de l’Afrique”
- French: “structure de Richat”
- French: “Structure de Richat”
- Galician: “Estrutura Richat”
- Georgian: “რიშატის სტრუქტურა”
- Georgian: “საჰარის თვალი”
- German: “Auge Afrikas”
- German: “Bull’s eye”
- German: “Guelb er Richat”
- German: “Richat Struktur”
- German: “Richat-Struktur”
- Hausa: “Tsarin Richat”
- Hebrew: “מבנה רישאת”
- Hungarian: “Richat-képződmény”
- Indonesian: “Struktur Richat”
- Italian: “occhio del Sahara”
- Italian: “Struttura di Richat”
- Japanese: “リシャット構造”
- Korean: “리차트 구조”
- Korean: “사하라의 눈”
- Korean: “아프리카의 눈”
- Lithuanian: “Rišato struktūra”
- Persian: “چشم صحرا”
- Polish: “Guelb er Richart”
- Polish: “Guelb er Richat”
- Polish: “Kalb ar-Riszat”
- Polish: “Oko Afryki”
- Polish: “Oko Sahary”
- Polish: “Struktura Richat”
- Polish: “Struktura Richata”
- Portuguese: “Estrutura de Richat”
- Portuguese: “Olho da África”
- Portuguese: “Olho do Saara”
- Portuguese: “Richat Structure”
- Quechua: “Richat Pawa”
- Romanian: “Structura Richat”
- Russian: “Ришат”
- Russian: “Структура Ричат”
- Russian: “Структура Ришат”
- Serbian: “Око Сахаре”
- Spanish: “Estructura de Richat”
- Spanish: “Estructura Richat”
- Spanish: “Richat”
- Swahili: “Muundo wa Richat”
- Swedish: “Guelb er Richât”
- Swedish: “Guelb er-Richat”
- Swedish: “Richatformationen”
- Swedish: “Saharas öga”
- Tamil: “சகாராவின் கண்”
- Thai: “โครงสร้าง Richat”
- Thai: “โครงสร้างริคฮัท”
- Turkish: “Richat yapısı”
- Ukrainian: “Глаз Сахари”
- Ukrainian: “Око Сахари”
- Ukrainian: “Ришат”
- Ukrainian: “Структура Ришат”
- Waray (Philippines): “Guelb er Richât”
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