SAHARA

The political events and the war that has been developed in the western Sahara from 1975 have made jump to the international present time the existence and the identity of the town saharaui, inhabitant of this piece of the desert; but their history, its vicissitudes and their special way of life go back many centuries back. Two are the peculiar characteristics of this town: its absolute independence, until the arrival of the Spanish colonization, of all state power, and their economy and survival, cradles in the nomadeo of their cattles in look for constant of better grass. This characteristic of independence of all power, as well as the nomadeo, has determined the idiosyncrasy and the culture saharauis through the times, forming them absolutely different from their Moroccan neighbors of the North and the inhabitants of the sedentary or seminomadic nuclei of present Mauritania. Between the samples of this peculiar culture they emphasize the popular stories, whose thematic it resorts repeatedly to geographic means of the surrounding desert, to the camel like basic element of transport and survival and to the constant displacements of the nomads. In main lines, the territory inhabited by saharauis from a precolonial time is delimited to the North by the Dra river, having constituted an absolute natural border that separates the desert of Morocco; to the South, the limits of the region of Uadibe, White Cabo, the Adrar Sotuf and the sandy Azefal and, by the East, sebja or saline depression of Iyil, Bir Um Grein and hamada or the plain of Tinduf. www.fortunecity.es