Ghardaïa Mzab
In the center of the oasis, the town of GHARDAIA, gateway to the desert, is the most important and most visited town in M’Zab.
A landscape of striking beauty, a dense oasis where century-old palm trees irrigated by a traditional hydraulic system proudly rise to the sky, a prodigious architecture that fascinates its contemplators, customs rooted for centuries and which have allowed the picturesque and specific face of the region to be preserved.
Given the tourist importance of the wilaya of Ghardaïa, it has an airport and a bus station.
GHARDAIA was classified as a tourist site by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1982.
The Wilaya of GHARDAIA is located in the center of the northern part of the Sahara, 600 km south of Algiers.
It comes from the administrative division of the territory in 1984 (official journal). The entire new Wilaya depended on the old Wilaya of Laghouat. It is made up of the former dairates of Ghardaïa, Metlili and El Meniaa.
The Wilaya of Ghardaïa is limited on the north side by the Wilaya of Laghouat (200 km), on the north east by the Wilaya of Djelfa (300 km); from the East by the Wilaya of Ouargla (200 km); from the South by the Wilaya of Tamanrasset (1,470 km); from the South-West via the Wilaya of Adrar (400 km); and from the West by the Wilaya of El-Bayadh (350 km).
The Wilaya covers an area of 86,105 km.
It is characterized by plains in the Continental Terminal of the silted regions, the Chebka and the entire central region and extends from North to South for approximately 450 km and from East to West for approximately 200 km.
A landscape of striking beauty, a dense oasis where century-old palm trees irrigated by a traditional hydraulic system proudly rise to the sky, a prodigious architecture that fascinates its contemplators, customs rooted for centuries and which have allowed the picturesque and specific face of the region to be preserved.
Given the tourist importance of the wilaya of Ghardaïa, it has an airport and a bus station.
GHARDAIA was classified as a tourist site by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1982.
The Wilaya of GHARDAIA is located in the center of the northern part of the Sahara, 600 km south of Algiers.
It comes from the administrative division of the territory in 1984 (official journal). The entire new Wilaya depended on the old Wilaya of Laghouat. It is made up of the former dairates of Ghardaïa, Metlili and El Meniaa.
The Wilaya of Ghardaïa is limited on the north side by the Wilaya of Laghouat (200 km), on the north east by the Wilaya of Djelfa (300 km); from the East by the Wilaya of Ouargla (200 km); from the South by the Wilaya of Tamanrasset (1,470 km); from the South-West via the Wilaya of Adrar (400 km); and from the West by the Wilaya of El-Bayadh (350 km).
The Wilaya covers an area of 86,105 km.
It is characterized by plains in the Continental Terminal of the silted regions, the Chebka and the entire central region and extends from North to South for approximately 450 km and from East to West for approximately 200 km.