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Amazmaz

Gueltas of Amazmaz
Shown within Mauritania
Location	Adrar plateau
Region	Adrar, Mauritania
Coordinates	19°43′00″N 13°26′00″W / 19.71667°N 13.43333°W / 19.71667; -13.43333
History
Periods	Neolithic

Amazmaz is an isolated elevation with steep slopes in the western part of the Adrar plateau in Mauritania, 400 km northeast of the capital Nouakchott.

Rock paintings of the Amazmaz gueltas

At the foot of the hill there are the gueltas of Amazmaz, a chain of ponds, hidden among rocks and surrounded by rushes, but used for thousands of years, as evidenced by the rock paintings on the slopes bordering the waters.

Gallery

• Rock painting of a bovine
• Rock painting of a bovine
• Rock engraving of a bovine

References

1. Geography of Amazmaz (retrieved 2020-03-15).
2. Robert Vernet, Baouba Ould Mohamed Naffé: Dictionnaire archéologique de la Mauritanie. Université de Nouakchott, 2003.

• Adrar region
• Archaeological sites in Mauritania
• Saharan rock art
• Caves of Mauritania