Aouzou
| Aouzou أوزو |
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| Coordinates | 21 ° 49 ′ N , 17 ° 26 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Chad | ||
| Tibesti | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | TD-TI | ||
| height | 1075 m | ||
| Residents | 1300 (2012) | ||
Aouzou ( Arabic أوزو, DMG Aʾūzū , also Aozou ) is a small town and oasis with 1,300 inhabitants in the north of Chad within the Aouzou strip and at the same time the northernmost settlement in Chad. She became known through the Aouzou conflict (1978-1987). The city came with the aouzou strip in 1994 by a decision of the International Court of Justice also de jure finally to Chad.
geography
The area around Aouzou is the Tibesti region with a total of 22,000 inhabitants. The region is nicknamed the “mountainous region of hunger”. The next place is Tommi , the next significant settlement is Bardai , about 70 km as the crow flies in a south-westerly direction. There is also a landing strip there. The Libyan border runs about 100 km further north.
climate
The maximum temperatures are around 30 ° C in the lowlands and around 20 ° C in the high areas of the mountains. In the winter months, however, this falls to around 12 in the lowlands and 9 ° C in the high areas.
literature
- Werner Gartung : Yallah Tibesti. From Lake Chad to the rock people. Westermann, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-07-509400-5 .
- Boundaries of Lake Chad Region , UNEP publication, p. 26 (PDF; 8.41 MB).
- Jason L. Permenter, Clive Oppenheimer: Volcanoes of the Tibesti massif (Chad, northern Africa). (PDF; 768 kB).
- Christoph Staewen : A trip to Tibesti. Richter, 2005, ISBN 3-00-015063-3 (travel report from spring 1964).
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean Chapelle: Nomades noirs du Sahara: les Toubous . Editions L'Harmattan, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-85802-221-6 , pp. 69 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).