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Atar (Arabic: أطار, Berber for mountain) is a town in northwestern Mauritania, the capital of the Adrar Region and the main settlement on the Adrar Plateau.Situated on the Oued Seguellil, it is home to an airport, a museum and a historic mosque, constructed in 1674.
Atar Airport or Atar International Airport (IATA: ATR, ICAO: GQPA) is an airport serving Atar, a town in the Adrar Region of Mauritania. World War II
Atar is a department of the Adrar Region in western Mauritania. [ 1 ] The capital lies at Atar . The other villages in the department are Ain Ehel Taya , Tawaz , Azougui and Choum .
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Adrar (Arabic: ولاية أدرار, romanized: Wilāyat Adrār) is a large administrative region in Mauritania, named for the Adrar Plateau.The capital is Atar.Other major towns include Choum, Chinguetti and Ouadane.
The Adrar is an arid plateau, known for its gorges, regs (stony deserts) and sand dunes.Structurally the Adrar is a low central massif which rises to over 700 m (2,297 ft) above sea level just east of Atar near the Amojjar Pass on the track to Chinguetti, then loses elevation and becomes subsumed by dunes to the south and east.
Chinguetti is 86 km from Atar, 90 km and 128 km from Ouadane, along the plateau track.. Regarded as the 7th Holy City of Islam, Chinguetti was a religious center and famous for its many Koranic schools and universities.
Amojjar Pass is a mountain pass in the Adrar Plateau in the centre of Adrar, near Atar, Mauritania. [1] The pink-brown sandstone of the pass was worn away by repeated cycles of extreme dryness interrupted by torrential rain. [1] The bases of the steep valley walls are covered in scree, loosed by the erosion of the rainfall. [1]