Qualla: La Güera https://qualla.com/la-guera en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/e/e/e/y/la-guera-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: La Güera https://qualla.com/la-guera La Güera: Introduction https://qualla.com/la-guera/ Photo credit Cartel_ciudades_hermanadas_Crevillente.JPG: C. Quesada derivative work: Kokoo (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The houses are still there, but no one answers the doors. Sand drifts through empty Spanish colonial rooms, climbs the walls, and softens the streets of a town that the maps still name but the world has let go. La Güera sits at the very southern tip of the Cap Blanc peninsula, in territory that three governments have claimed and only ghosts now inhabit. A century ago it minted its own postage stamps. Today a handful of fishermen and a distant military post are all that remain to say anyone was ever here.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/e/e/y/la-guera-wp/eeey-la-g-era-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full La Güera: The End of the Peninsula https://qualla.com/la-guera/ Photo credit c.hug, CC BY-SA 2.0. La Güera marks the southernmost point of Western Sahara, where the Cap Blanc peninsula runs out into the Atlantic. It lies about fifteen kilometers west of the Mauritanian city of Nouadhibou, separated by an old border that splits the narrow peninsula down its length. The name it...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/e/e/y/la-guera-wp/eeey-la-g-era-the-end-of-the-peninsula.mp3 0:06 2 full La Güera: A Colony Built on a Border https://qualla.com/la-guera/ Photo credit Tinga more, CC BY-SA 3.0. The town came into being in late 1920, when the Spanish colonial officer Francisco Bens negotiated with local tribal leaders and established a fort and an air base on the western side of the peninsula. It rose just a few kilometers from the French settlement of Port-Étienne, toda...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/e/e/y/la-guera-wp/eeey-la-g-era-a-colony-built-on-a-border.mp3 0:06 3 full La Güera: Symbiosis and Sea https://qualla.com/la-guera/ Photo credit Public domain. Before war emptied it, La Güera was known for the extraordinary richness of its waters. The monk seal was the symbol of the town. Dolphins worked these shallows alongside the fishermen in a rare partnership, the Imraguen people driving fish toward the shore while the dolphins dro...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/e/e/y/la-guera-wp/eeey-la-g-era-symbiosis-and-sea.mp3 0:06 4 full La Güera: Reclaimed by Sand https://qualla.com/la-guera/ Photo credit Eric Gaba (Sting - fr:Sting) and user:NordNordWest, CC BY 3.0. Everything changed in 1975 and 1976. As Spain withdrew from the Sahara, the long Western Sahara War swept across the region, and La Güera changed hands more than once. When Mauritania withdrew from that war in 1979, the town's population was estimated at 816. The fighting, the di...

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