It is 224 km from Nouakchott.
By way of road Nouadhibou is 500 km from Nouakchott. The trip only takes a few hours by way of the newly asphalted road. Of this road, you can branch out and see the fishing villages of: Nouamghar, Blawakh, Iwik, Lemsid. There is especially the Bay of Arguin, a natural reserve, classified as heritage to Humanity.

Located on both sides of the 20th parallel, the Park extend more than 185 km on the coast and covers a surface of 12 000 km2 of maritime and terrestrial zones.

The park is unique in its kind, an ecosystem rich in fauna and flora: marine birds, fish, invertebrates, marine mammals and various vegetable species. This marine animal-life comprises seals, large dolphins, and marine tortoises, crabs… there are also terrestrial mammals: jackals, gazelles…

The flora comprises a great diversity like the “halophilous” plants, shrubs like the “acacias gommier”, the fig tree…

Dunes follow the littoral, which creates a remarquable contrast. Salted basins, the 'sebkhas' accentuate this diversity.

The Imraguen is a population, which fish the mullet and the “courbines” according to traditional methods, which did not have not changed since the oldest times. A large part of the Imraguen lives in the Park. Others became sedentary in the aforementioned villages.

It is to safeguard this unique environment and biodiversity that the Mauritanian Government created, in 1976, the National park of the Bench of Arguin, recognized, in 1982, as wetland of international importance and declared, in 1989, site of World Heritage within the framework of the Program “Man and the Biosphere” by the UNESCO.

It should be noted that the entry of the Park is open but it is necessary to respect a code of good ecological behaviour.

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