Bordj Badji Mokhtar

برج باجي مختار ⴱⵓⵔⴵ ⴱⴰⴵⵉ ⵎⵓⵅⵜⴰⵔ Bordj Badji Mokhtar
Bordj Badji Mokhtar
Coordinates	21 ° 20 ′  N , 0 ° 57 ′  E Coordinates: 21 ° 20 ′  N , 0 ° 57 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Algeria
province	Bordj Badji Mokhtar
height	401 m
Residents	16,437 (2008)

Bordj Badji Mokhtar ( Arabic برج باجي مختار, DMG Burǧ Bāǧī Muḫtār , Zentralatlas-Tamazight ⴱⵓⵔⴵ ⴱⴰⴵⵉ ⵎⵓⵅⵜⴰⵔ , abbreviated form Bordj Mokhtar or abbreviated BBM ) is a city in the south of the Algerian Sahara near the border with Mali . It is the capital of the province of the same name . Bordj refers to a small fort in Algeria .

history

The origins of Bordj Mokhtar go back to drilling a well for a storage area during the development of the route from Reggane to Mali in 1940. A French first lieutenant named Louis Le Prieur ran this company. A fort was later built nearby by the French army. During the colonial period , the place was called Bordj Le Prieur and was part of the Département de la Saoura . After independence , the name was changed to Bordj Badji Mokhtar in honor of the independence fighter Badji Mokhtar (1919–1955) .

geography

The city is located at an altitude of 401 m in the Tanezrouft , a flat and largely uninhabited part of the Sahara.

Transport links

Bordj Mokhtar is on the national road 6 and is the border town to Mali. The airport Aéroport de Bordj Mokhtar with IATA airport code BMW is located around 4 km north of the town .

climate

Bordj Mokhtar has an arid climate with the BWh climate classification, with long and very hot summers and short warm winters. The average rainfall is 38 mm per year.

Bordj Badji Mokhtar
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     1   26th 11     0   29 14th     0   33 17th     0   37 21st     1   40 25th     2   44 29     6th   43 28     17th   42 28     10   41 27     1   37 23     0   32 17th     0   27 13 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: climate-data.org

Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for Bordj Badji Mokhtar Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 26.0 29.3 32.7 37.0 40.4 43.5 42.9 41.9 41.0 37.1 31.5 27.1 O 35.9 Min. Temperature (° C) 11.4 13.6 16.8 20.7 24.8 28.6 28.4 27.8 26.6 22.6 17.0 12.7 O 20.9 Temperature (° C) 18.7 21.4 24.7 28.8 32.6 36.0 35.6 34.8 33.8 29.8 24.2 19.9 O 28.4 Precipitation ( mm ) 1 0 0 0 1 2 6th 17th 10 1 0 0 Σ 38 Source: climate-data.org

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  Bordj-Mokhtar (1990)

Web links

• Forts du Sahara Central - Bordj Le Prieur (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures 2008. (English) ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Forts du Sahara Central , (French). Retrieved October 1, 2014.
3. ↑ A la découverte de Bordj-Badji Mokhtar et Timiaouine dans le grand Tanezrouf . Djazairess: L'actualité d'Algérie au fil de l'eau (French). Retrieved October 1, 2014.
4. ↑ Airport Codes . Retrieved October 1, 2014.