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.
- Type: Town with 3,130 residents
- Description: ghost town in Western Sahara
- Also known as: “El gaouira”, “El Gouera”, “Gueria”, “La Aguera”, “La Agüera”, “La Aguerra”, “La Aquera”, “La Gouera”, “La Gueera”, “La Güera الكويرة”, “Laguira”, “Lagwirate”, “Лагуира”, “Лягуира”, “اكوارة”, “الاكوارة”, “الگويرة”, “بئر الذئب”, “بير الذئب”, “جماعة الكويرة*”, “كويرة”, “لكويرة”, “라구에라”, “라궤라”, and “ラ・アグエラ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cansado and Al-Battariyya.
Cansado
Town
Al-Battariyya
Hamlet
La Batterie, also known in Arabic as Al Batariyya… Al-Battariyya is situated 6 km northeast of La Güera.
Ras Nouadhibou
Locality
Ras Nouadhibou is a 60-kilometre peninsula or headland… 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′ north
Longitude
-17.08912° or 17° 5′ 21″ west
Population
3,130
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Open location code
7CG4RWM6+89
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Walloon—“La Güera” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الكويرة”
- Catalan: “Güera”
- Cebuano: “Uad Guenifa”
- Chinese: “拉圭拉”
- Czech: “Al-Kuvíra”
- Dutch: “La Gouèra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الكويره”
- Esperanto: “La Guera aŭ Al-Kavira”
- Estonian: “La Güera”
- Finnish: “La Güera”
- French: “Lagouira”
- Galician: “La Güera”
- German: “La Gouira”
- Hassaniyya: “الڭويرة”
- Hindi: “ला ग्वेरा”
- Indonesian: “La Güera”
- Italian: “La Guera”
- Japanese: “ラ グエラ”
- Japanese: “ラ・グエラ市”
- Japanese: “ラゴウイラ”
- Kazakh: “Agwéra qalası”
- Kazakh: “Агуэра қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Агуэра”
- Kazakh: “اگۋەرا قالاسى”
- Korean: “라 궤라”
- Lithuanian: “La Guera”
- Moksha: “Агуэра”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لڭويرة”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لݣويرة”
- Persian: “الكويره”
- Persian: “الکویره”
- Polish: “Al-Kuwajra”
- Polish: “Al-Kuwira”
- Portuguese: “Lagouira”
- Russian: “Агуэра”
- Scots: “Lagouira”
- Serbo-Croatian: “La Güera”
- Slovenian: “La Güera”
- Spanish: “La Güera”
- Swedish: “al-Kawira”
- Swedish: “Al-Kawira”
- Swedish: “Lagouira”
- Ukrainian: “Агуера”
- Urdu: “لا گویرا”
- Walloon: “El Gwira”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Falso Cabo Blanco and رأس دوبوشاج.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: منطقة الكويرة المغربية and Church of the Immaculate.
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Worth a closer look: El Aaiún and Ad Dakhla.
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