Sali ( ar, ﺳﺎﻟﻰ) is a town and

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Reggane District Reggane District is a district of Adrar Province, Algeria. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 33,540. Communes The district is further divided into 2 communes: *Reggane Reggane (from Berber "Argan"; ar, رقان) is a town and c ...

Adrar Province Adrar ( ar, ولاية أدرار, ber, ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ) is a province (''wilaya'') in southwestern Algeria, named after its capital Adrar. It is the second-largest province, with an area of 424,948 km2, roughly the size of the US state o ...

, south-central

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. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 13,138, up from 11,304 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 1.5%.

Geography

The villages in Sali commune are all found next to

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at an elevation of about . These oases form part of a long longer string of oases known as the

Tuat Tuat, or Touat, is a natural region of desert in central Algeria that contains a string of small oases. In the past, the oases were important for caravans crossing the Sahara. Geography Tuat lies to the south of the Grand Erg Occidental, to t ...

region, running from north to south through

. Beyond the oases, the sandy

Erg Chech The Erg Chech ( ar, عرق شاش), is a large erg in southwestern Algeria and northern Mali. Geography It is an almost uninhabited part of the greater Sahara Desert, an inhospitable desert region with long, extremely hot summers and short, very w ...

desert lies to the west and the rocky

Tademaït Tademaït is a natural region in the Sahara Desert right in the centre of Algeria. It is located north of In Salah and south of the Grand Erg Occidental in the Adrar District of Adrar Province, El Ménia District of Ghardaïa Province and the nor ...

plateau lies to the east.

Climate

Sali has a hot

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(

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''BWh''), with extremely hot summers and mild winters, and very little

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throughout the year.

Transportation

The main road in Sali commune is the N6 national highway, which runs through the commune from north-northwest to south-southeast, and connects to

Adrar Adrar (in Tifinagh script "ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ"), a Berber word meaning "mountain", is the name of several areas in Northwest Africa: Algeria * Adrar, Algeria, a town in Algeria * Adrar Province, an administrative division of Algeria * Adrar District, ...

in the north and

Reggane Reggane (from Berber "Argan"; ar, رقان) is a town and commune, and the capital of Reggane District, in Adrar Province, central Algeria. Reggane lies in the Sahara Desert near an oasis. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 20,40 ...

in the south. The villages of the commune are connected to the highway by short local roads.

Education

5.1% of the population has a tertiary education, and another 12.7% has completed secondary education. The overall literacy rate is 74.1%, and is 88.0% among males and 60.3% among females.

Localities

As of 1984, the commune was composed of 17 localities: *Bab Allah *El Mansour *Bermata *Kasbet Moulay Ali *Kasbet Ennadjar *El Meharza *Kasbet Djenna Allouchia *Kasbet Sidi Cherif *Oulay Moulay Abdelouahab *Ksar Eldjdid *Kasbet Bassidi *Ouled Moulay El Arbi *Tinnourt *Berriche *Bahou *El Mestour *Zaouit Lahchef

References

Neighbouring towns and cities

{{Adrar Province Communes of Adrar Province Cities in Algeria