Taghit

Taghit is a metropolis and commune in Taghit District, Bechar Province, in western Algeria. The town is an oasis watered by using the underground Oued Zousfana, which runs along beside the dunes of the Grand Erg Occidental. According to the 2008 census its populace is 6,317, up from 6,047 in 1998, with an annual boom charge of zero.4%. The commune covers a place of 8,080 rectangular kilometres. The metropolis turned into the web site of the Battle of Taghit in 1903, in which 4000 Zayanes Berbers besieged the French inside the city, whom they outnumbered with the aid of 10 to 1. The attackers were later compelled to retreat.

Taghit lies on the left bank of the Oued Zouzfana. The Grand Erg Occidental, a big area of continuous sand dunes, lies to the east, at the same time as the rocky Djebel Baroun lies to the west across the river. Taghit has a hot barren region climate, with extraordinarily hot summers and funky winters, and very little precipitation throughout the yr.