In Salah

عين صالح In Salah
Coordinates	27 ° 15 ′  N , 2 ° 31 ′  E Coordinates: 27 ° 15 ′  N , 2 ° 31 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Algeria
province	In Salah
height	265 m
surface	43,938 km²
Residents	32,518 (2009)
density	0.7  Ew. / km²
City gate in In Salah

In Salah ( Arabic عين صالح, DMG ʿAin Ṣāliḥ , German "source of salvation") is the most important city in the oases of Tidikelt in the Sahara in the central Algerian province of In Salah , of which it is the capital. The population is around 32,518. The city can also be found listed as Ain Salah . The population density is around 0.7 inhabitants / km² and the altitude is 265 m.

location

It is located on the Transsahara route Algiers - Tamanrasset - Agadez , part of the Algiers-Lagos Highway , also known as Trans-African Highway No. 2 (TAH 2).

history

The place used to be an important station on the trans-Saharan caravan route and, as the last larger settlement before the central Saharan city ​​of Tamanrasset, has not lost any of its former importance for the movement of people and goods. Pierer's Lexicon describes In Salah 1857 as “a town in a sandy area with many springs in the Tuat oasis (western Sahara), stone houses, mostly inhabited by marabouts; Date palms, cereals; 3000 inhabitants ".

There are flight connections to Algiers and other major cities in the country. In Salah is home to one of the largest Algerian facilities for oil production and the production of natural gas , where the new technology of CO₂ separation and storage is also being tested. The city is considered to be one of the hottest places in the Sahara. Allegedly 53 ° C were already measured in the shade.

climate

In Salah
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     4th   22nd 7th     4th   25th 10     1   29 13     2   33 17th     1   38 22nd     0   44 28     0   45 29     1   44 29     0   40 26th     1   34 20th     1   27 13     3   22nd 8th Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: wetterkontor.de

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for In Salah Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 21.6 25.1 28.6 33.2 38.0 43.5 44.7 44.0 40.3 34.1 27.1 21.9 O 33.5 Min. Temperature (° C) 7.1 10.0 13.3 17.1 22.1 27.6 29.2 28.8 25.8 19.7 13.0 7.8 O 18.5 Precipitation ( mm ) 4th 4th 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 Σ 18th Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 8.8 9.1 9.7 10.1 10.6 10.4 11.4 10.9 10.0 9.0 9.0 8.2 O 9.8 Humidity ( % ) 39 33 27 22nd 19th 16 15th 15th 21st 29 36 41 O 26.1 Source: wetterkontor.de

In Salah in literature

Salah ("Sba") is one of the settings in Paul Bowles ' novel The Sky Over the Desert .

See also

• Salt caravans in the Sahara

Web links

Commons : In Salah  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• In Salah - travel notes from "African picture book" (from Algiers to Agadez)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ city.com
2. ↑ Ain  1). In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 1 . Altenburg 1857, p. 230 ( zeno.org ).
3. ↑ Stefanie Schramm: Energy: banishment for the climate killer . In: The time . No. 16/2008 ( online ).