F'dérik
| F'dérik أفديرك |
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 Mauritania
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| Region : | Tiris Zemmour | ||
| Department: | F'Dérik | ||
| Coordinates : | 22 ° 41 ′ N , 12 ° 42 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 455 meters above sea level | ||
| Residents : | 6,175 (2010) | ||
| Time zone : | GMT ( UTC ± 0 ) | ||
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F'dérik ( Arabic أفديرك, DMG Afdairik ; also F'Dérick ) is a mining town in the north of Mauritania in the administrative region Tiris Zemmour , near which the largest iron ore deposits in the country are mined. During the French colonial times the place was called Fort Gouraud.
Between F'dérik and the capital of the Zouérate region, 30 kilometers to the east, the rugged rocky hills of Kediet ej Jill (Kédia d'Idjil) , consisting of black rocks, rise from the flat sand plain. Its summit is the highest mountain in Mauritania at 915 meters. In 1952, the multinational Mines de Fer de Mauritanie (MINERFA) consortium began preparations to mine iron ore in the area. Iron ore has been mined since 1963 and brought to the loading port in Nouadhibou via the Nouadhibou – M'Haoudat railway line . In 1974 the operating company was nationalized under the name Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière (SNIM).
At the census in 2000, the place had 4,431 inhabitants, for 2010 6,175 inhabitants were calculated.
The small town can be reached on a road from Atar 300 kilometers south . The only public transport is the train from Nouadhibou via Choum. A 400-kilometer-long piste leads north to Bir Moghrein , the northernmost town in the country. After a few kilometers on this route, a track branches off in a north-westerly direction to the Sebkhet ej Jill , the salt mines of Idjil. In pre-colonial times, several Berber tribes transported salt with camel caravans from here to Morocco in the north and south via Chinguetti , Tichitt and Oualata to the Niger .
Web links
- Bernadette Michalski: The Mineral Industry of Mauritania. (PDF; 17 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ population statistics. (No longer available online.) World Gazetteer, October 23, 2013, archived from the original on November 17, 2016 ; Retrieved November 17, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Roland Anthony Oliver, John Donnelly Fage, George Neville Sanderson: The Cambridge History of Africa: Volume 6. c. 1870 - c. 1905. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1985, ISBN 0-521-22803-4 , p. 15.
