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  2. Wildlife of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    In general, Egypt is a very dry country. The Western Desert receives only occasional rainfall, the winters being mild and the summers very hot. The Eastern Desert receives some precipitation in the south in the form of orographic rainfall from winds that have crossed the Red Sea; this may cause torrential flows in the wadis. The winters here ...

  3. Western Desert - Wikipedia

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    The Black Desert (‏الصحراء السوداء) is a region of volcano-shaped and widely spaced mounds, distributed along about 30 km (19 mi) in the Western Desert between the White Desert in the south and the Bahariya Oasis in the north. Most of its mounds are capped by basalt sills, giving them the characteristic black color.

  4. Bahariya Oasis - Wikipedia

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    Bahariya Oasis (Arabic: الواحات البحرية, romanized: El-Wāḥāt El-Baḥrīya, "the Northern Oases") is a depression and a naturally rich oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt. It is approximately 370 km away from Cairo.

  5. List of wild animals of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the wild animal species that were reported in Egypt. Class: Mammalia (mammals) ... Desert hedgehog Paraechinus aethiopicus; African giant shrew.

  6. List of mammals of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Sirenia is an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit rivers, estuaries, coastal marine waters, swamps, and marine wetlands. All four species are endangered. These animals live in warm coastal waters from East Africa to Australia, including the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Pacific. Family: Dugongidae. Genus: Dugong. Dugong, D ...

  7. Kharga Oasis - Wikipedia

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    Kharga is the most modernised of Egypt's western oases. The main town is highly functional with all modern facilities, and virtually nothing left of old architecture. There is extensive thorny date palm , acacia , buffalo thorn , and jujube growth in the oasis surrounding the modern town of Kharga.

  8. Category:Western Desert (Egypt) - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to the Western Desert, an area of the Sahara that lies west of the river Nile, up to the Libyan border, and south from the Mediterranean Sea to the border with Sudan. It is named in contrast to the Eastern Desert which extends east from the Nile to the Red Sea .

  9. Bahariya Formation - Wikipedia

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    Bahariya Formation (Egypt) The Bahariya Formation (also transcribed as Baharija Formation ) is a fossiliferous geologic formation dating back to the early Cenomanian , which outcrops within the Bahariya depression in Egypt , and is known from oil exploration drilling across much of the Western Desert where it forms an important oil reservoir .