Wadi Zighen (also Wadi Zighan) is a
depression (height 310 metres) located in the
Libyan Desert
The Libyan Desert (not to be confused with the Libyan Sahara) is a geographical region filling the north-eastern Sahara Desert, from eastern Libya to the Western Desert of Egypt and far northwestern Sudan. On medieval maps, its use predates t ...
in the
Kufra District of
Libya
Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya bo ...
, about 180 km north-northwest of
El Tag and east of
Tazirbu
Tazerbu ( ar, تازربو) is an oasis located in the Libyan Desert in the Kufra District of Libya, about 250 km to the northwest of Kufra.Bertarelli (1929), p. 515. The name means "main seat" in the Toubou language, because this was the sea ...
.
[Bertarelli (1929), p. 515.] There are five
wells
Wells most commonly refers to:
* Wells, Somerset, a cathedral city in Somerset, England
* Well, an excavation or structure created in the ground
* Wells (name)
Wells may also refer to:
Places Canada
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England
* Wells ...
, the most important is named ''Bir el Hárasc''. Around the wells grow some palms, but there are no permanent inhabitants.
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Oases of Libya
Cyrenaica
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