Laghouat Province


Laghouat is a province in central Algeria. forty-eight bearing the number within the administrative division of the country, bordered to the north Tiaret Province, to the west El Bayadh Province, to the south Ghardaia Province and from the east by Djelfa Province.
The capital is Laghouat City. Mediated by this region Saharan Atlas and thus the region of steppe. It is famous for its palm trees and its generosity as it is known for raising livestock due to its pastoral and steppe character.
On the tourist side, the district of Kef El Melh in the municipality of Tadjrouna is near the border with El Bayadh Province the most important tourist area in the state and there is the largest tourist headquarters for the state in the Kordan Palace or crown angle. There are also tourist areas and natural sights such as Al-Ghaisheh, Taouila, Lalmaya, Ein Sefsifah, Al-Huwaita and Madana. The Talemzane crater, with its nozzle resulting from the fall of the meteorite in ancient times, is the fourth age and the second largest in size in the world after which there is Arizona and is found in the municipality of Hassi Delaa to the south.
The state is also famous for its production natural gas as it contains important fields in the region of Hassi R'Mel and has huge reserves of this vital material which qualified Algeria to occupy an important position globally in the field of energy. This material is pumped through several tubes to feed Europe.

Geography

Location and Nature

Located at an altitude of 750 m, the Laghouat Province is part of the Saharan Atlas Mountains chain with some peaks above 2,000 m "Djebel Amour: 2,200 m"
Laghouat is a Province in the south of Algeria and away from Algiers by about 400 km and its orchards and buildings and mosques span the antique through a vast steppe and mountains tall and green pastures, where the largest stream tributary of Wadi Al-Tawil Chelif River originates from its mountains,and M'zi River where a municipality is called by its name.
The area is characterized by its pastoral, agricultural and mountainous steppe character, as it contains a region of a purely industrial nature, which is Hassi R'mel. As it is possible to classify the state from this side as an energy mandate in the first place.

Terrain

The Province of Laghouat is located between Tell and desert at the foothills of the Saharan Atlas chain with its two sides Amour Range west of the Province and the mountains of Ouled Nile east of it, and this can be divided The Province is divided into three main regions:

Saharan Atlas

It is located in the northwest of the state, specifically north of the mountains of Djebel Amour, and is characterized by a height between 1000 and 1700 meters from the surface of sea. We can distinguish them into two sub-regions: the High Highlands area in the north and a mountainous area in the south. The Districts of : Gueltet Sidi Saâd, Aflou District, Brida District, El Ghicha District and Oued Morra District.
The most important characteristic of this region is that it is the source of the most important Rivers in Algeria like: Chelif River through its tributary, Wadi el-Taweel and Wadi Djedi through its tributary M'zi River. It is also distinguished by the presence of forests The Green Dam.

[steppe]

It is located in the middle, characterized by a height between 700 and 1000 AD. It is known as a grazing area, as it contains many steppe plants and herbs. This region includes most of the state's vegetation except for the green dam forests in the mountainous region. The district of Sidi Makhlouf; Laghouat District, the northern part of the district of Ain Madhi.

Desert

In the southern part of the state of Laghouat, it includes what is known as the desert plateau, and includes the Hassi R'Mel District, the south of the Ksar El Hirane District and the south of the Ain Madhi District. It is distinguished by its low vegetation cover, as it is confined to the plant Peganum, except for some hills here and there that are distinguished by the diversity of its plants Ziziphus spina-christi, Pistacia atlantica and the various herbs flowers in the spring.

Administrative division

The province is divided into 10 districts, which are further divided into 24 communes or municipalities.

Districts

  1. Aflou
  2. Aïn Mahdi
  3. Brida
  4. El Ghicha
  5. Gueltet Sidi Saâd
  6. Hassi R'Mel
  7. Ksar El Hirane
  8. Laghouat
  9. Oued Morra
  10. Sidi Makhlouf

    Communes

  11. Aflou
  12. Aïn Madhi
  13. Aïn Sidi Ali
  14. Beidha
  15. Brida
  16. El Assafia
  17. El Ghicha
  18. El Houaita
  19. Gueltat Sidi Saad
  20. Hadj Mechri
  21. Hassi Delaa
  22. Hassi R'Mel
  23. Kheneg
  24. Ksar El Hirane
  25. Laghouat
  26. Mekhareg
  27. Oued Morra
  28. Oued M'Zi
  29. Sebgag
  30. Sidi Bouzid
  31. Sidi Makhlouf
  32. Tadjemout
  33. Tadjrouna
  34. Taouila

    Economy

Transportation

Transportation is the most important economic sector for any country, so taking care of it and giving it its strategic position was necessary and vital.
Laghouat Province contains three national methods:
The state also has two airports, one of which is a local airport that is used mainly to transport pilgrims which is Laghouat Airport called by the martyr Moulay Ahmed Madgari. The second one is of an economic nature, and it is an airport Hassi R'mel that is used mainly by the National Fuel Company Sonatrach to transport its tires, experts, and businessmen contracting with it.

Energy

Laghouat Province is considered the second most important energy mandate in Algeria after Ouargla Province because it contains one of the most important gas fields in Africa in the region of Hassi R'mel, and it contains many electricity production stations in the region Telegmat near Hassi R'mel and the area of Kheneg which contains the largest solar PV plant Algeria with a capacity of 60 MW.

CPV EKP solar power station definition

This station is located 5 km from the municipality of Kheneg and 10 km from Laghouat in Algeria.
It sits on an area of 120 hectares and produces more than 300 MWh megawatt hours as an average daily of electricity.
It contains more than 240 thousand solar panels distributed over 5460 matrices, 2040 junction Box of three levels, 120 Inverter, and 60 transformer.
It is connected to a high-voltage electricity transmission network 60 kV by the lifting station which contains 03 transformers with a capacity of 20 MVA each.
Laborers: 77 includes one of them 19 an employee belonging to the company responsible for the station "SKTM", and the rest are guard workers.

Livestock raising

The herd increases in Laghouat province 4,000,000 head of cattle, and they are distributed as follows:
sheep ranked first with 3 million heads. Followed by goats then cows Valves and finally horses.

Tourism


rock carvings El Ghicha


rock carvings sidi Makhlouf