Gebel el Uwaynat
Mount Uwaynat or Gabal El Uweinat is a mountain range in the area of the Egyptian-Libyan-Sudanese tripoint. Because of thousands of prehistoric rock art sites, it is considered an important witness to the development of early pastoralism in the Sahara.Gebel el Uwaynat
- Type: Rock
- Also known as: “Jebel el Oweinat, Gebel el Uweinat, Gebel Oweinat, Ouinat, ‘Uweinat”
- Category: landform
- Location: Libya, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
21.92869° or 21° 55′ 43″ north
Longitude
25.01778° or 25° 1′ 4″ east
Open location code
7GH7W2H9+F4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bare_rock
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Gebel el Uwaynat” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل العوينات”
- French: “Jebel Uweinat”
- Georgian: “ჯებელ-უვეინატი”
- German: “Uwainat”
- Greek: “Τζέμπελ Ουεϊνάτ”
- Hebrew: “עווינאת”
- Italian: “Gebel Auenat”
- Polish: “Dżabal al-Uwajnat”
- Spanish: “Monte Uweinat”
- Swedish: “Jabal al ‘Uwaynāt”
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