Ain Salah

In Salah or Ain Salah is an oasis town in crucial Algeria. It became as soon as an crucial alternate link of the trans-Saharan caravan direction. As of the 2008 census it has a populace of 32,518, up from 28,022 in 1998 with an annual boom price of 1.5%, the lowest inside the province. The village is located within the coronary heart of the Sahara Desert place of northern Africa.

The name In Salah comes from the term appropriate properly although the water is understood for its as an alternative unpleasant, salty flavor. Aside from oil and gas reserves, the primary monetary sports of In Salah are agricultural in nature with irrigation being furnished with the aid of artesian wells. The oasis has over 200,000 date fingers. The chief produce are dates, end result and vegetables. Fruit and vegetable gardens and Palm groves flank the village on its southern and western edges. These groves are covered from the constantly advancing sand by hedges. In Salah is also a centre for nomadic Tuareg. The In Salah oil and gasoline fields are domestic to the In Salah Project, a major issue of which includes a facility to get rid of CO2 from the gasoline produced.