La Güera (also known as
La Agüera,
Lagouira, or
El Gouera) (Arabic: الكويرة) is a
ghost town on the
Atlantic coast at the southern tip of
Western Sahara, on the western side of the
Ras Nouadhibou peninsula, 15 km west of
Nouadhibou. It is also the name of a
daira at the
Sahrawi refugee camps in south-western Algeria. The name comes from the Spanish word which is a ditch that carries rainwater to crops. By 2002, it had been abandoned and partially overblown by sand, inhabited only by a few
Imraguen fishermen and guarded by a
Mauritanian military outpost, despite this not being Mauritanian territory.