guelta

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Except for a few rivulets and pools (guelta) in the massifs, there is no permanent water though the mountains are essential to recharging the groundwater supply of northern Niger.

Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger 2008
Pollution is affecting the moss-formed travertine in the guelta of Azarif near Iherir.

Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, Algeria 2008
The humid valleys and guelta banks have Sudanian riverine vegetation: Tamarix gallica, and some Ficus sycomorus, Acacia nilotica, Salvadora persica and Hyphaene thebaica.

Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, Algeria 2008