Al_Jawf,_Libya

Al Jawf, Libya

Al Jawf, Libya

Town in Cyrenaica, Libya

For other uses, see Al Jawf.

Al Jawf (Arabic: الجوف Al Ğawf) is a town in southeastern Libya, the capital of the Kufra district in Libya.

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The city has an elevation of 382.2 m (1,254 feet). in 2022, the city's population was 18,587.[1] Al Jawf receives almost no rain whatsoever, averaging only 2.5 millimetres or 0.1 inches per year. Summer high temperatures average above 38 °C or 100 °F.

The city lies in the largest oasis in the Kufra basin,[2] extracting the water from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System. It is one of the most heavily irrigated oases in the Sahara. The surrounding area contains clusters of center-pivot irrigation systems used for agriculture. The distinctive pattern was photographed from orbit by the crew of the International Space Station in 2016.[3]

Irrigation at Al Jawf oasis

Climate

Al Jawf has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh).

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Sources

  • Bertarelli, L.V. (1929). Guida d'Italia, Vol. XVII (in Italian). Milano: Consociazione Turistica Italiana.

References

  1. [1]
    "Population of Al-Jawf In 2023 - statistics". all-populations.com. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  2. [2]
    Bertarelli (1929), p. 514.
  3. [3]
    "Al Jawf, Eastern Libya". earthobservatory.nasa.gov. January 2, 2017.
  4. [4]
    "Weatherbase: Weather For Al Jawf, Libya". Weatherbase. 2011. Retrieved on November 23, 2011.
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