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Kouroudjel () is a village and rural commune in
Mauritania Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Maghreb, Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to Mauritania–Western Sahara border, the north and northwest, ...
.


Location

Kouroudjel is a commune in the Kiffa Moughataa of the Assaba Wilaya. The commune of Kouroudjel lies to the south of the commune of Kiffa. The village is on the road leading north from Kankossa to
Kiffa Kiffa () is a large town in the far south region of Mauritania, and the name of an administrative area within the local Assaba Region. Kiffa is located at , some from the coast and at the western end of the Aoukar sand sea of southern Mau ...
, where it joins the RN3 highway.


Oasis

Kouroudjel is in the
Sahel The Sahel region (; ), or Sahelian acacia savanna, is a Biogeography, biogeographical region in Africa. It is the Ecotone, transition zone between the more humid Sudanian savannas to its south and the drier Sahara to the north. The Sahel has a ...
, and is an oasis with palm groves. Kouroudjel has depressions with clay-sand beds holding a few clumps of
doum palm Doum may refer to: * Doum, Central African Republic * Doum Doum, Chad *'' Hyphaene thebaica'' or doum palm, a type of palm tree See also * Douma (disambiguation) * Doums {{disambiguation