Wadi Djedi

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Wadi Djedi
Satellite image of the Schott Melghir estuary

Satellite image of the Schott Melghir estuary

Data
location Algeria
source Sahara Atlas
muzzle Schott Melghir coordinates: 34 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  E 34 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  E
Mouth height 40  m below sea level

length 480 km

The Wadi Djedi is a regularly drying river, a wadi , in North Africa with a length of about 480 kilometers. It flows only in the north of Algeria along the southern border of the Atlas Mountains .

It rises in the middle of the Sahara Atlas to flow past the city of Laghouat eastwards towards the border with Tunisia . Shortly before it reaches this, it flows into the Schott Melghir (a Schott is a lake that also has an extremely fluctuating water level over the course of the year).