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Río de Oro (at bottom) during Spanish colonisation Desolate landscape terrain in the Río de Oro region, near the town of Guerguerat Stamp of Rio de Oro issued in 1907. Río de Oro (Spanish: [ˈri.o ðe ˈoɾo] ⓘ, Spanish for "River of Gold"; Arabic: وادي الذهب, Wādī-aḏ-Ḏāhab, often transliterated as Oued Edhahab) is the ...
Another promontory, Archipres Grande, lies 26 km further on. At the southern end of the peninsula, there are two capes: on the Atlantic coast is Punta Durnford, which is low, features cliffs, and is dominated by sand-dunes; On the side that faces the bay is Punta de la Sarga, which is low and sandy. Between the two is Punta Galera, which has a ...
The Catatumbo region is a region of Colombia.It is located in the northeast of the department of Norte de Santander and a small part in the southwest of the department of Cesar, which extends between the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia and Lake Maracaibo, which is why the region has come to be considered "transborder". [1]
A map of Argentina's river drainage basins. This list is arranged by drainage basin , with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Rivers in the table above are in bold.
In 1958 Spain merged Rio de Oro and Saguia el-Hamara in 1958 as Spanish Sahara; [2] that same year Spain ceded the Tarfaya Strip to Morocco (via the Treaty of Angra de Cintra), thereby re-instating the 1904 border. [3] [2] [5] Ifni was ceded in 1969 (following a failed Moroccan attempt to capture the region by force in 1957).
A man planning a camping trip using Google Maps ran across a uniquely curved spherical pit in Quebec. It may be an ancient asteroid impact crater. A Camper Was Playing With Google Maps—and ...
Upon arriving in Rio de Oro in 1884 to establish their first coastal factories, the Spanish were forced to deal with the Oulad Delim, a Sahrawi Arab tribe that controlled the entirety of Rio de Oro and a strip of land in Mauritania extending from Nouadhibou to Idjlil. [7]
It was, with Río de Oro, one of the two territories that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969. Its name comes from a waterway that goes through the capital. The wadi is inhabited by the Oulad Tidrarin Sahrawi tribe. Occupying the northern part of Western Sahara, it lay between the 26th parallel north and 27°50'N.