| Gara Djebilet Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Âouinet Bel Egrâ | ||||||||||
| Location | Algeria | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | ft / 0 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 26°53′0.7″N7°9′53.2″W / 26.883528°N 7.164778°W Coordinates: 26°53′0.7″N7°9′53.2″W / 26.883528°N 7.164778°W | ||||||||||
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  Gara Djebilet Airport Location of Gara Djebilet Airport in Algeria | |||||||||||
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Gara Djebilet Airport is a public use airport located near Âouinet Bel Egrâ, Tindouf Province, Algeria.
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports often have facilities to store and maintain aircraft, and a control tower. An airport consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface such as a runway for a plane to take off or a helipad, and often includes adjacent utility buildings such as control towers, hangars and terminals. Larger airports may have airport aprons, taxiway bridges, air traffic control centres, passenger facilities such as restaurants and lounges, and emergency services. In some countries, the US in particular, they also typically have one or more fixed-base operators, serving general aviation.
Âouinet Bel Egrâ is a village in the commune of Tindouf, in Tindouf Province, Algeria. It is in the Sahara Desert approximately 160 kilometres south-east of Tindouf. There is a Saharawi Refugee camp here named Dakhla.
Tindouf, also written Tinduf, is the westernmost province of Algeria, having a population of 58,193 as of the 2008 census. Its population in reality could be as high as 160,000 because of the Sahrawi refugee camps. Despite the barren landscape, Tindouf is a resource-rich province, with important quantities of iron ore located in the Gara Djebilet area close to the border with Mauritania. Prior to Algerian independence, the area served as a strongpoint of several tribes of the nomadic Reguibat confederation.
