The Sahara is the biggest desert of the world, with approximately 9.065.000 km ² of surface. It is located in the north of Africa.This desert shares border with almost all the countries of the north of Africa.Only there is witness of which it has snowed once in the Sahara and it was a February 18, 1979. It seems to be that it was in the south of Algeria, in half of the night.It is in the list of not autonomous territories of the United Nations.It borders to the north on Marruecos, eastwards on Algeria and Mauritania, on the south on Mauritania and on the west on the Atlantic Ocean. It is a semidesert country divided in two regions, Saguiet the-Hamra in the north and Wadi ed Dahab (Rio de Oro) in the south. On his coasts it possesses one of the principal fishing reserves of the world.Your principal economic resource is the exploitation of the mines of fosfatos of Bu-Craa. One of the principal archaeological wealths of the Sahara they are his funeral monuments, The funeral rituals form a very important part of the culture of all the peoples villages. In the Hamada, the region mas hostile of the desert of the Sahara there live sheltered hundreds of thousands of persons for mas of thirty years, through the still constant struggle of the Saharan people village.

The school has taken part, and each of us we have taken to the school a package of rice, of flour and azucar for the saharuis, and after the school one will take the Sahara to help the Saharan children.


Extensión: 266.000 km2
population: 500.000 people approximately
population density: 3,8 people/km2
Capital: al Aiun
Lenguage: árabe hassania
Religions: Islam
Index of Birthrate: 2,8





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