Fenoughil ( ar, ﻓﻨﻮﻏﻴﻞ) is a commune, and the capital of

Fenoughil District Fenoughil District is a district of Adrar Province, Algeria. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 29,540. Communes The district is further divided into 3 communes: * Fenoughil *Tamentit *Tamest Tamest ( ar, تامست) is a com ...

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 ...

, in south-central

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. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 11,793, up from 9,962 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 1.7%.

Geography

The villages in Fenoughil commune, from Tasfaout in the north to Bour Sidi Youssef in the south, are all built around the northern and eastern side of

oases In ecology, an oasis (; ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environment 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 ...

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 nort ...

plateau lies to the east.

Climate

Fenoughil has a hot

desert climate The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification ''BWh'' and ''BWk''), is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation. The typically bald, rocky, or sandy surfaces in desert ...

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Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, nota ...

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

precipitation In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravitational pull from clouds. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, ice pellets, graupel and hai ...

throughout the year.

Transportation

The main road in Fenoughil is the N6 national highway, which runs through the commune from Adrar in the north to

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, ...

in the south. The villages of Ben Henni, El Mansour and Bour Sidi Youssef lie on the highway, and a local road to the west connects to the villages of Allouchia, Albani, Tasfaout, and Kassbet Lahrar.

Education

5.7% of the population has a tertiary education, and another 16.3% has completed secondary education. The overall literacy rate is 80.5%, and is 89.1% among males and 71.5% among females.

Localities

As of 1984, the commune was composed of 11 localities: * Zaouit Sidi Abdelkade * Tasfaout * Albani * Allouchia * Oudgha * Ben Henni * Azzi * El Mansour * Makra * Ouled Moulay Lahssen * Berchid * Ouled Moulay Omar * Kassbet Lahrar,Algeria * Bour Sidi Youssef * Baameur

References

Neighbouring towns and cities

{{Adrar Province Communes of Adrar Province Adrar Province