Lagouira

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Lagouira or La Gouera is (or was) a town on the Atlantic coast at the southern tip of Western Sahara, on the western side of the Ras Nouadhibou peninsula. (On recent satellite photos it appears abandoned and partially overblown with sand ^[1])

Called La Agüera when it was a short-lived Spanish colonial possession, La Agüera came into existence in 1920, when Spain established an air base on the western side of the peninsula, just a few miles away from the French Fort Etienne (now Nouadhibou) on the eastern side of the same peninsula. (In the 1912 Convention of Madrid, Spain and France had agreed on a border between Mauritania and Spanish possessions that ran down the middle of the peninsula.)

Contents 1 Sister cities 2 Postage stamps 3 References/Notes 4 External links

[edit] Sister cities

• El Puerto de Santa María,  Spain

[edit] Postage stamps

See: Postage stamps and postal history of La Agüera

[edit] References/Notes

1. ^ See, e.g. this view on Google Maps.[

[edit] External links

• Map of Ras Nouadhibou peninsula
• Satellite view at Google Maps