La Güera is a ghost town on the Atlantic coast at the southern tip of Western Sahara, on the western side of the Ras Nouadhibou peninsula which is split in two by the Mauritania–Western Sahara border, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of Nouadhibou. It is also the name of a daira at the Sahrawi refugee camps in south-western Algeria.
La Güera ruins, January 2003
Residence of the Spanish Governor in La Güera, 1935
Signboard showing, among others, the twinning of La Güera with the Spanish town of Crevillent
Ras Nouadhibou is a 60-kilometre (37 mi) peninsula or headland divided by the border between Mauritania and Western Sahara on the African coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It is internationally known as Cabo Blanco in Spanish or Cap Blanc in French.
A monk seal colony on Ras Nouadhibou in 1945
A seal swims at Ras Nouadhibou