El Kantara
El Kantara is a town and commune in Biskra Province, Algeria. The 1911 Baedeker travel guide described it as "one of the most important caravan-stations in E.Photo: Yelles, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lapidarium of El Kantara.
El Kantara
- Type: Town with 11,400 residents
- Description: municipality in Biskra Province, Algeria
- Categories: commune of Algeria and locality
- Location: Commune d’El Kantaras, El Kantara, Biskra Province, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
35.22312° or 35° 13′ 23″ northLongitude
5.70928° or 5° 42′ 33″ eastPopulation
11,400Elevation
504 metres (1,654 feet)Open location code
8F776PF5+6POpenStreetMap ID
node 427910708OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2497979Wikidata ID
Q3050002
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“El Kantara” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القنطرة (بسكرة)”
- Arabic: “القنطرة، بسكرة”
- Arabic: “القنطرة”
- Arabic: “قنطرة الجزائر”
- Catalan: “Al-Kantara”
- Chinese: “El Kantara”
- Chinese: “坎塔拉”
- Chinese: “坎塔拉峽谷”
- Dutch: “El Kantara”
- Egyptian Arabic: “القنطره”
- French: “El Kantara”
- French: “Kantara”
- German: “El Kantara”
- Indonesian: “El Kantara”
- Italian: “El Kantara”
- Japanese: “エル・カンタラー”
- Kabyle: “Lqenḍert”
- Malay: “El Kantara”
- Min Nan Chinese: “El Kantara”
- Persian: “قنطره”
- Polish: “El Kantara”
- Portuguese: “El Kantara”
- Romanian: “El Kantara”
- South Azerbaijani: “قنطره (بسکره)”
- South Azerbaijani: “قنطره”
- Spanish: “El Kantara”
- Spanish: “Kantara”
- Swedish: “El Kantara”
- Vietnamese: “El Kantara”
- Vietnamese: “El Kentara”
- Zulu: “El Kantara”
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