La Güera
La Güera is a ghost town on the Atlantic coast at the southern tip of Western Sahara, on the western side of the Ras Nouadhibou peninsula which is split in two by the Mauritania–Western Sahara border, 15 kilometres west of Nouadhibou.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5 es.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5 es.
- Type: Town with 3,130 residents
- Description: ghost town in Western Sahara
- Also known as: “Gueria”, “La Aguerra”, “La Aquera”, “Laguira”, “الڭويرة”, “گويرة”, and “لگويرة”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cansado and Al-Battariyya.
Cansado
Town
Photo: Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cansado is a coastal town in north-western Mauritania on the Ras Nouadhibou peninsula. It is located in the Nouadhibou Department in the Dakhlet Nouadhibou region. Cansado is situated 6 km east of La Güera.
Al-Battariyya
Hamlet
La Batterie, also known in Arabic as Al Batariyya, is a village in north-western Mauritania on the Ras Nouadhibou peninsular. It is located in the Nouadhibou Department in the Dakhlet Nouadhibou region south of Nouadhibou close to Cansado. Al-Battariyya is situated 6 km northeast of La Güera.
Ras Nouadhibou
Locality
Ras Nouadhibou is a 60-kilometre peninsula or headland divided by the border between Mauritania and Western Sahara on the African coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Ras Nouadhibou is situated 8 km southeast of La Güera.
La Güera
- Categories: village, disputed territory, ghost town, and locality
- Location: Western Sahara, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
20.83332° or 20° 50′ northLongitude
-17.08912° or 17° 5′ 21″ westPopulation
3,130Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
7CG4RWM6+89OpenStreetMap ID
node 469179926OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2462651Wikidata ID
Q1356850
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Walloon—“La Güera” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الكويرة”
- Arabic: “الگويرة”
- Arabic: “بئر الذئب”
- Arabic: “بير الذئب”
- Arabic: “جماعة الكويرة*”
- Catalan: “Güera”
- Catalan: “La Agüera”
- Cebuano: “Uad Guenifa”
- Chinese: “拉圭拉”
- Czech: “Al-Kuvíra”
- Dutch: “La Aguera”
- Dutch: “La Agüera”
- Dutch: “La Gouera”
- Dutch: “La Gouèra”
- Dutch: “La Gouira”
- Dutch: “La Guera”
- Dutch: “La Güera”
- Dutch: “Lagouira”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الكويره”
- Esperanto: “La Guera aŭ Al-Kavira”
- Estonian: “La Güera”
- Finnish: “La Güera”
- French: “El gaouira”
- French: “Lagouira”
- Galician: “La Güera”
- German: “La Agüera”
- German: “La Gouera”
- German: “La Gouèra”
- German: “La Gouira”
- German: “Lagouira”
- Indonesian: “La Güera”
- Italian: “La Agüera”
- Italian: “La Guera”
- Italian: “La Güera”
- Italian: “Lagouira”
- Italian: “Uad Guenifa”
- Japanese: “ラ・アグエラ”
- Japanese: “ラゴウイラ”
- Kazakh: “Agwéra qalası”
- Kazakh: “Агуэра қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Агуэра”
- Kazakh: “اگۋەرا قالاسى”
- Korean: “라 궤라”
- Korean: “라구에라”
- Korean: “라궤라”
- Lithuanian: “La Guera”
- Moksha: “Агуэра”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لڭويرة”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لݣويرة”
- Persian: “الكويره”
- Persian: “الکویره”
- Polish: “Al-Kuwajra”
- Polish: “Al-Kuwira”
- Polish: “La Gouera”
- Polish: “La Gouèra”
- Polish: “Lagouira”
- Portuguese: “La Aguera”
- Portuguese: “La Agüera”
- Portuguese: “La Gouira”
- Portuguese: “La Guera”
- Portuguese: “La Güera”
- Portuguese: “Lagouira”
- Russian: “Агуэра”
- Russian: “Лагуира”
- Russian: “Лягуира”
- Scots: “Lagouira”
- Serbo-Croatian: “La Güera”
- Slovenian: “La Guera”
- Slovenian: “La Güera”
- Spanish: “La Aguera”
- Spanish: “La Agüera”
- Spanish: “La Guera”
- Spanish: “La Güera”
- Spanish: “Lagouira”
- Swedish: “al-Kawira”
- Swedish: “Al-Kawira”
- Swedish: “La Gouera”
- Swedish: “La Gouèra”
- Swedish: “Lagouira”
- Ukrainian: “Агуера”
- Urdu: “لا گویرا”
- Walloon: “El Gwira”
- Walloon: “Lagwirate”
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