Place:Oualata, Hodh Ech Chargui, Mauritania

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NameOualata
Alt namesOualâtasource: Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-129
Walatasource: Times Atlas of World History (1993) p 359
TypeCity
Coordinates17.25°N 6.917°W
Located inHodh Ech Chargui, Mauritania
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Oualata or Walata (also Biru in 17th century chronicles) is a small oasis town in southeast Mauritania, located at the eastern end of the Aoukar basin. Oualata was important as a caravan city in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries as the southern terminus of a trans-Saharan trade route and now it is a World Heritage Site.

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