The great kesria, Akbou-Aougrout (Timimoun)
The great 'kesria', Akbou-Aougrout (Timimoun)
The “kasria” is a distributor of the foggara. The latter, designed for centuries in southern Algeria, is a gallery of a certain slope, dug by man in order to collect the water gravitating from a feeding area, to recover it and exploit it downstream in the oasis. It has a draining part upstream, and a shorter part downstream which leads the water into the oasis. The third stamp in the series represents the large 'kesria' of Akbou Aougrout in Timimoun, in southern Algeria.
The “kasria” is a distributor of the foggara. The latter, designed for centuries in southern Algeria, is a gallery of a certain slope, dug by man in order to collect the water gravitating from a feeding area, to recover it and exploit it downstream in the oasis. It has a draining part upstream, and a shorter part downstream which leads the water into the oasis. The third stamp in the series represents the large 'kesria' of Akbou Aougrout in Timimoun, in southern Algeria.