Tamest () is a commune in

Fenoughil District Fenoughil District is a district of Adrar Province, Algeria. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 29,540. Communes The district is further divided into 3 communes: * Fenoughil *Tamentit Tamentit ( is a town and communes of Algeri ...

Adrar Province Adrar (, ) is a province ('' wilaya'') in southwestern Algeria, named after its capital Adrar. It is the second-largest province, with an area of 254 000 km2, roughly the size of the US state of Wyoming. It had 401.297 inhabitants at the ...

, south-central

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 8,266, up from 6,658 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 2.2%.

Geography

The villages in Tamest commune are all found next to

oases In ecology, an oasis (; : oases ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environment Tuat Tuat, or Touat (), is a natural region of desert in central Algeria that contains a string of small oasis, oases. In the past, the oases were important for Camel caravan, caravans crossing the Sahara. Geography Tuat lies to the south of the Gr ...

region, running from north to south through

. Beyond the oases, the sandy

Erg Chech The Erg Chech (), is a large erg in southwestern Algeria and northern Mali. Geography It is an almost uninhabited part of the greater Sahara Desert, an inhospitable desert region with long, extremely hot summers and short, very warm winters. The E ...

desert lies to the west and the rocky Tademaït plateau lies to the east.

Climate

Tamest has a hot

desert climate The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification ''BWh'' and ''BWk'') is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation. The typically bald, rocky, or sandy surfaces in desert ...

(

Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification divides Earth climates into five main climate groups, with each group being divided based on patterns of seasonal precipitation and temperature. The five main groups are ''A'' (tropical), ''B'' (arid), ''C'' (te ...

''BWh''), with extremely hot summers and mild winters, and very little

precipitation In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, rain and snow mixed ("sleet" in Commonwe ...

throughout the year.

Transportation

The main road in Tamest commune is the N6 national highway, which runs through the commune from north to south, and connects to Adrar in the north and

Reggane Reggane (from Berber "Argan"; ) is a town and commune, and the capital of Reggane District, in Adrar Province, central Algeria. Reggane lies in the Sahara Desert near an oasis. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 20,402, up from 14 ...

in the south. Some local villages lie on the side of the highway while others are connected by short local roads.

Education

5.5% of the population has a tertiary education, and another 12.8% has completed secondary education. The overall literacy rate is 75.3%, and is 85.6% among males and 65.1% among females.

Localities

As of 1984, the commune was composed of 11 localities: * El Ahmar * Titaf * Rharmianou * Arhil *Temassekht * Ikkas *Ramalt * Ouled Antar *Djedid * Ouled Bou Yahia *Essoufia

References

Neighbouring towns and cities

{{Adrar Province Communes of Adrar Province Cities in Algeria