Río de Oro
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Río de Oro (Spanish for "Gold River", Arabic: wādī-ð-ðahab, often transliterated as Oued Edhahab), is, with Saguia el-Hamra, one of the two territories that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969. Its name comes from an east-west river that runs through it. The river is largely dried out, or runs underground.
Occupying the southern part of Western Sahara, it lies between the 24th parallel to the north and 23rd to the south. The area is roughly 114,000 mi.2 (184,000 km²), making it approximately two-thirds of the entire country. The provincial capital was ad-Dakhla (founded by the Spanish colonizers as Villa Cisneros).
This area is today divided by the Moroccan Wall, splitting it into the Moroccan-controlled parts of Western Sahara, known in Morocco as the Southern Provinces, and the Polisario-held Free Zone, under the administration of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
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