ABSTRACT

Ksours and oases such as Tabelkoza, Sidi Mansour and Taghouzi form the northern boundary of the Gourara region, to the west, the last oasis in Gourara, Bahamou, can be considered as an ethnic boundary (J. Bisson,1956), while Meslila is part of the Saoura. To the South, the physical boundary is erg Echech and a succession of palm groves, Ksours and Sebkhas.