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Tagant Plateau
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<h2 id="geography">Geography</h2> <p>Some towns are located at the foot of the Tagant Plateau's slopes, which form <a href="/facts/Cliff/P7tXINep">cliffs</a> in some places. Among these areas are <a href="/facts/Tichit/XfbzNbQK">Tichit</a>, <a href="/facts/Moudj%25C3%25A9ria/p4TARsaS">Moudjéria</a> and <a href="/facts/Rachid%2c_Mauritania/wDv7GdW5">Rachid</a>. <a href="/facts/Tidjikdja/w87RbcyT">Tidjikdja</a> lies on the Tagant itself. The Assaba Massif, where <a href="/facts/Late_Ordovician/BjMrLIEA">Late Ordovician</a> <a href="/facts/Glacial_formation/8GrKVUSS">glacial formations</a> have been identified, is a southward prolongation of the Tagant Plateau.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> The <a href="/facts/Aoukar/15I9clk2">Aoukar</a>, the dry basin of a former lake lies beyond the southern escarpments of the Tagant Plateau.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>Beginning in mid-17th century, migrants from the <a href="/facts/Adrar_Plateau/cYIgqSqb">Adrar Plateau</a> region moved in and displaced the native population of the Tagant Plateau, the <a href="/facts/Toucouleur_people/1IBQNfJw">Toucouleur people</a>, who now inhabit <a href="/facts/Futa_Toro/Sl4DVC9S">Futa Toro</a> along the <a href="/facts/Senegal_river/qdPmyD3F">Senegal river</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>: 17, 50 </p><p>The Tartega Gueltas <a href="/facts/Oasis/BT9IVsR7">oasis</a> is one of the few <a href="/facts/Wetlands/9abbP7CR">wetlands</a> in the region where there were still <a href="/facts/West_African_crocodile/vKfTeg2P">desert crocodiles</a> in 1976.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> The population was reported to be extinct in 1996,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> but as of 2011 was still present, particularly in the <a href="/facts/Lake_Gabou/CbDH4SQ5">Lake Gabou</a> area.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Dhar_Tichitt/Ye8gR0k4">Dhar Tichitt</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Geography_of_Mauritania/5zDFdlt8">Geography of Mauritania</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140814101833/http://ramsar.wetlands.org/Portals/15/MAURITANIA.pdf">1.3 Mauritania - Ramsar Sites Information Service</a></li></ul> <p><a href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Tagant_Plateau¶ms=18.4692_N_11.0522_W_source:kolossus-nlwiki">18°28′09″N 11°03′08″W / 18.4692°N 11.0522°W / 18.4692; -11.0522</a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>M. J. Hambrey, W. B. Harland eds. Earth's Pre-Pleistocene Glacial Record. p. 90 <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Tichit - The living ghost of yesterday's glory <a href="http://looklex.com/mauritania/tichit.htm" target="_blank">http://looklex.com/mauritania/tichit.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>James L. A. Webb, Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>R. H. Hughes, J. S. Hughes, G. M. Bernacsek, A Directory of African Wetlands. p. 57 <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>de Smet, Klaas (January 1998). "Status of the Nile crocodile in the Sahara desert". Hydrobiologia. 391 (1–3). SpringerLink: 81–86. doi:10.1023/A:1003592123079. Another relict population [of Nile crocodiles], in the Tagant hills of Mauretania, was found to be probably extinct in 1996. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Brito JC, Martínez-Freiría F, Sierra P, Sillero N, Tarroso P. Crocodiles in the Sahara desert: an update of distribution, habitats and population status for conservation planning in Mauritania. PLoS One. 2011 Feb 25;6(2):e14734. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014734. PMID: 21364897; PMCID: PMC3045445. <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>