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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 ...
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 ...
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]
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). [3] [2] [5] Ifni was ceded in 1969 (following a failed Moroccan attempt to capture the region by force in 1957).
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Río del Oro may refer to: Río del Oro (Chile) Río del Oro (Colombia) Río del Oro (Mexico) Río del Oro (Spain) See also. Río de Oro (disambiguation)
Río de Oro has its source on the eastern slope of the serranía de Los Motilones, in the Catatumbo Barí Natural Park (extreme north of the Norte de Santander Department of Colombia). It then flows eastward following the Venezuelan border, [1] going to Venezuela then join the Catatumbo River [2] in the state of Zulia.
The Río de Oro (River of Gold) is a river which flows in northeast Morocco to reach the Mediterranean Sea at the harbour of the Spanish exclave of Melilla Wikimedia Commons has media related to Río de Oro, Melilla .