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Réserve naturelle de sel iodé

nature reserve in Mauritania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ7315255 ↗
Source-derived summary

Réserve naturelle de sel iodé - literally: natural reserve of iodised salt - is a small nature reserve in Nouakchott, Mauritania. It is located on the Avenue Gamal Abdel Nasser, near the Ministry of Energy headquarters and opposite the Centre neuro-psychiatrique de Nouakchott, north of the urban commune of Sebkha, and it is constituted out of a sebkha (a semi-arid salted wetland).

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Réserve naturelle de sel iodé” is nature reserve in Mauritania. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Réserve, naturelle and iodé, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 62-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Réserve, naturelle and iodé is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7315255. Authority coordinates are 18.086, -15.997. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Réserve naturelle de sel iodé” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.