Peninsula Ras Nouadhibou

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Cap Blanc, Cap Blanco, Peninsula Ras Nouadhibou (رأس نواذيبو‎). The boundary, which seperate the peninsula in a western and eastern part, was settled in a joint French-Spanish convention in 1900 to divide the area between the former Spanish Sahara and French West Africa.
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A lighthouse was constructed on the cape in 1910.
With the independence of Mauritania in November 1960 also the eastern former french part of the peninsula became mauritanian.
By 6 November 1975 the Spanish civilian population left La Güera.
When Mauritanian Army forces invaded the southern part of Western Sahara with the western part of the peninsula (This was the zone agreed to be annexed by Mauritania in the Madrid Accords) a battle with the POLISARIO took place between 10–22 December 1975. By the end of 1975 until 1979 Mauritania controlled the southern half of the former Spanish colony of Rio de Oro.
From 1979 until 2002 it was controlled by Morocco. But a Mauritanian military outpost was accepted by Morocco. According to the wikipedia article about La Güera
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the western part of the peninsula is again controlled since 2002 only by Mauritania - despite not being formally a Mauritanian territory.


At the ocean coast of Ras Nouadhibou the Arkin (Ergan) Basin Park (fr.: Parc national du Banc d'Arguin) contains the world’s largest and perhaps only viable colony of monk seals (25% of the world population), extensive seagrass meadows which are major fish nurseries, nesting sites for two threatened species of marine turtle, and relict populations of dorcas gazelle.
Shelter for the seals in Mauretania: www.cbd-habitat.com/contenidos/proyectoFoca/des/Cote_de...
Following the mass mortality that struck the world’s largest surviving monk seal colony in the Western Sahara in 1997, 103 individuals were estimated to survive (mean estimate. 95% CI: 77 – 148, Forcada et al. 1999), down from 300. These estimates are generally considered more reliable than those obtained elsewhere since they relied upon clearly-defined photo-identification procedures, often impractical elsewhere. New estimates of 150 individuals are based on interpretations of evidence by researchers – counts of seals at low tide in breeding caves, increasing beach counts, and decreasing mortalities – but have not been confirmed by capture-recapture methods
zit. : www.monachus-guardian.org/factfiles/medit15.htm

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