Sea Transport in Mauritania Last updated on
Thursday 22nd April 2010
Mauritania's main port is Nouadhibou. A smaller port is found at Nouakchott, and St-Louis in Senegal also serves for maritime traffic to Mauritania.
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Formerly known as Port-Étienne, this town in northwestern Mauritania is the administrative centre of the Dakhlet-Nouadhibou Region, on the Atlantic Ocean.
Its economy is predominantly...
Transportation facilities include air routes and 7,660 km (4,760 mi.) of roads and tracks. The 1,100-km Trans-Mauritanian highway was completed in 1985. A 670-km (416-mi.) railroad links...
Overview
History
The Bafours & the Berbers
The Almoravids
The Arab wars
European rule
Rise of nationalism
Ould Daddah
Ould Salek
The Polisario problem
Taya's coup
Geography...
The domestic airline is Air Mauritanie. The two international airports are Nouakchott and Nouadhibou, to which Royal Air Moroc, Air Afrique and Iberia fly. There are four other domestic...
On the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and the capital city, Nouakchott provides a good out-of-the-way tourist destination.
It is Mauritania's administrative and economic centre and is served...
For more information on tourism to Mauritania, contact:
Maison de l'Afrique, Rue de Viarmes 2
75001 Paris, France
Or in Mauritania itself, contact:
Tourist Office
off Avenue General Nasser...
During the colonial period, Mauritania remained little more than an administrative appendage to Senegal. The first nationalist party, the Entente Mauritanienne, was set up by Ould Babana,...
