La Güera
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La Güera الكويرة |
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| Ghost town | |
La Güera ruins, January 2003
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 La Güera
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| Coordinates: 20°50′N 17°5′W / 20.833°N 17.083°W | |
| Claimed by |
 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
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| Controlled by |
 Mauritania
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| Founded | 30 November 1920 |
| Population (2004) | |
| • Total | 3,726 |
| Time zone | GMT |
Coordinates: 20°50′N 17°5.5′W / 20.833°N 17.0917°W
La Güera (also known as La Agüera, Lagouira, or El Gouera) (Arabic: الكويرة) is a ghost town on the Atlantic coast at the southern tip of Western Sahara, on the western side of the Ras Nouadhibou peninsula, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of Nouadhibou. It is also the name of a daira at the Sahrawi refugee camps in south-western Algeria. The name comes from the Spanish word Agüera which is a ditch that carries rainwater to crops. By 2002, it had been abandoned and partially overblown by sand, inhabited only by a few Imraguen fishermen and guarded by a Mauritanian military outpost, despite this not being Mauritanian territory.
It is the southernmost town of Western Sahara, claimed by both the Kingdom of Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). However, Lagouira is situated south of the Moroccan Wall, and long abandoned by both Moroccan and Polisario Front forces, though a January 2015 report from a pro-SADR news website claimed that Polisario military personnel had been allowed into the area.
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