Takoujt village is located on the bottom of
Erg Chebbi
Erg Chebbi () is one of Morocco's several ergs – large seas of dunes formed by wind-blown sand. It is located on the far western edge of the Sahara Desert. There are several other ergs in Morocco, such as Erg Chigaga near M'hamid.
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Sahara
The Sahara (, ) is a desert spanning across North Africa. With an area of , it is the largest hot desert in the world and the list of deserts by area, third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Ar ...
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erg
The erg is a unit of energy equal to 10−7joules (100Nano-, nJ). It is not an SI unit, instead originating from the centimetre–gram–second system of units (CGS). Its name is derived from (), a Greek language, Greek word meaning 'work' or ' ...
in southeast Morocco near the Algerian border.
Its most well known nearby village is
Merzouga
Merzouga (, ) is a village in southeastern Morocco. The village is near the Erg Chebbi dunes, one of the tallest in the Sahara. It is about southeast of Rissani, about from Erfoud and about from the Algeria–Morocco border, Algerian border. S ...
. Other villages around the dunes are
Hassilabied,
Tanamoust,
Khamlia
Khamlia is small village located on the edge of sand dunes of Erg Chebbi in southeast Morocco near the Algerian border. The village is also called the southern gateway to the Sahara.
See also
* Merzouga
Merzouga (, ) is a village in southeast ...
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Tisserdmine The village is located on the bottom of Erg Chebbi, a Saharan erg in southeast Morocco near the Algerian border.
The most well-known nearby village is Merzouga. Other villages around the dunes are Hassilabied, Tanamoust, Takoujt, and Khamlia
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Populated places in Errachidia Province
Oases of Morocco