Talmine ( ar, ﻃﺎﻟﻤﻴﻦ) is a town and commune in Charouine District,

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 12,768, up from 9,469 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 3.1%.

Geography

Talmine commune lies at an elevation of about . It covers the westernmost oases in the

Gourara 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 of northern

(excepting the villages of

Meslila Meslila is a settlement in the commune of Ouled Khoudir, in Ouled Khoudir District, Béchar Province, Algeria. The settlement is surrounded by the dunes of the Grand Erg Occidental The Grand Erg Occidental ( ar, العرق الغربي الكب� ...

and

Bent Cherk Bent Cherk is a village in the commune of Ksabi, in Ouled Khoudir District, Béchar Province, Algeria. The village is located near the border with Adrar Province Adrar ( ar, ولاية أدرار, ber, ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ) is a province (''wilay ...

that lies in Béchar Province. The oases mainly lie in the southernmost part of the

Grand Erg Occidental The Grand Erg Occidental ( ar, العرق الغربي الكبير, al-ʿIrq al-Gharbī al-Kabīr), (also known as the Western Sand Sea) is the second largest erg in northern Algeria after the Grand Erg Oriental. It covers an area of approximately ...

, a large area of

sand dunes A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune system or a dune complex. A large dune complex is called a dune field, while broad, f ...

stretching well into Béchar and El Bayadh provinces.

Climate

Talmine 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 ...

(

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 through the commune is a provincial road that starts at the village of

Taghouzi Taghouzi is a populated place in the commune of Talmine, in Charouine District, Adrar Province, Algeria. It lies to the west of Timimoun, on the southern edge of the Grand Erg Occidental desert. The oasis lies on the northern edge of the Gourara r ...

, passes through Taguenout, Saguia and Boukezzine before connecting to the N6 national highway southeast of Ksabi. A number of local roads connect this main road to the villages of the commune.

Education

1.0% of the population has a tertiary education (the second lowest in the commune), and another 3.2% has completed secondary education. The overall literacy rate is 36.4% (the second lowest in

), and is 56.2% among males (second lowest in the province) and 15.0% among females (lowest in the province).

Localities

As of 1984, the commune was composed of 11 localities: *Boukezine *Talmine * Saguia * Guettouf *Takialt *

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*Taarabien *Tamesguelout *Timarine *

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* Bahammou *Zaïtar *Rached * Taguenout * Guellou

References

Neighbouring towns and cities

{{Adrar Province Communes of Adrar Province