"Villa Cisneros - Provincia del Sahara - A.O.E." Ad Dakhla by WARCS

Ad Dakhla Travel Guide: 17 reviews and 55 photos

Villa Cisneros Harbour in the 70's - Ad Dakhla

Former Africa Occidental Espanola

Dakhla
La antigua ciudad de Villa Cisneros esta situada en la peninsula de Yala (peninsula del Rio de Oro), en la orilla interior de la bahia que se forma. En la epoca de la soberania espanola estaba constituida en su gran mayoria por blancos chalets y su poblacion estaba en torno a los 5.000 habitantes.
El clima es muy benevolo, sobre todo en el periodo que va desde primeros de Octubre a finales de Febrero, en el que se hace muy agradable su estancia alli. Solo la gran presencia de insectos como moscas y mosquitos perturban tal estancia.
En esta localidad se encontraba el edificio mas antiguo de todo el Sahara, su fuerte, hasta que las autoridades marroquies lo demolieron el pasado ano.
Era de gran importancia la pesca, debido a la abundante cantidad de especies y la gran cantidad de los mismos, asi como de mariscos, sobre todo en los bancos poco profundos de la ria

Dakhla. Former Villa Cisneros .
Is a coastal city in the Atlantic Ocean situated in the Yala peninsula which economical base is fishing. Capital city of the southern region of Rio de Oro (River of gold) in the former province of Spanish Sahara (Sahara Espanol) until 1975 (year of the moroccan occupation), when its population was around 5,000 inhabitants. In that times the city was made up of white "chalets" that gave to the city a special taste.
In Dakhla was located the oldest building in Western Sahara, the fortress. It was demolished past year by moroccan authorities.

All the location names that I have written and I will write in this page (even the name of the city) are the old ones. I do this in this way because is easier for me, and I believe that if you had been there in that times it will help you for remembering. This are the names that we used and as we wrote when this territory was part of Spain, before the Moroccan occupation.