National Road 6 (Algeria)

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The unpaved and hardly marked National Road 6 in the southern Algerian Sahara
N6 south of Reggane, the beginning of the Tanezrouft slope (1990)

The national road 6 or N6 for short is a trunk road in Algeria and runs in a north-south direction through the Sahara . Its northern end point is in the port city of Oran on the Mediterranean . It leads via Muaskar , Saida , Bechar , Adrar , Reggane and Bordj Badji Mokhtar to Timiaouine on the border with Mali .

The route between Reggane and Gao in Mali is also known as the Tanezrouft piste , as it is partly unpaved and poorly marked over 1337 km through the flat Tanezrouft area of ​​the western Sahara. Along with the Algiers-Lagos Highway in the east, it is the only north-south Transsahara route for vehicles in Algeria.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Afrika Nord und West , Publishing House for Economic and Cartographic Publications, Obertshausen, 1989