Inchiri

Inchiri is Mauritania's smallest region by area, but it lies on the road every traveller takes between Nouakchott and the Adrar.

Its capital, **Akjoujt**, was built on copper and gold, and mining still drives its economy. Around it stretch open steppes where camel herds graze among scattered acacias.

Its landmark is the **Tifoujar Pass**, a defile climbing onto the Adrar plateau. Travellers stop there because the landscape changes all at once, from plain to escarpment.

To the north-west, part of Banc d'Arguin park extends along its coast.

Nobody comes to Inchiri for its own sake, but it is a stage on the northern road and a quiet bivouac country under a clear sky.