LES FOGGARAS DE L’AHAGGAR : DISPARITION D’UN PATRIMOINE HYDRAULIQUE

B Remini, B Achour

Abstract


This paper describes for the first time the foggaras that were operating in the oasis of the Ahaggar over seven centuries. The study shows the absence of data on this heritage. If the foggaras of Tuat and Gourara have been several publications, those of Ahaggar have been completely forgotten. To the number of 184 foggaras inventoried in 1956, the foggaras of Ahaggar are short lengths (up to 5 km) and exploit the waters of inferoflux tablecloth. With a maximum rate of 5L/s, the distribution of water shares between co-owners of standard schedule. That is to say, the irrigation is done by turns, it is series irrigation. Today hydraulic heritage has completely disappeared, there are very few writings.


Keywords


Foggara, Ahaggar, Heritage, Oasis, Irrigation

Full Text:

PDF

References


ABIDI SAAD N., REMINI B. (2011). Les foggaras de Touat : la fierté de la population locale. Annales des Sciences et Technologie Vol. 3, N° 2, Décembre, 107-113.

DUBOST D., MOGUODET G. (1998). Un patrimoine menacé: les foggaras du Touat. Revue Secheresse, Vol. 9, n°2 (juin), 117-122.

HOFMAN A. (2007). The traditional management of water by qanat in Eastern Iran is compatible with the concept of Gire. Technical synthesis ", Engref, Center of Montpellier, February, 17 pages.

GAST M. (1951). Foggara. Encyclopédie Berbère, pp. 2868-2880. Mis en ligne le 01 juin 2011. (http://encylopidiéberbere.revues.org).

GOBLOT H. (1979). Les qanats : une technique d’acquisition de l’eau. Paris, Mouton, 231 pages.

KOBORI I. (1982). Case studies of foggara oases in the Algerian Sahara and Syria, Tokyo, Tokyo University, Department of Geography, report n° 2, 45 pages.

REMINI B., ACHOUR B. (2008). Vers la disparition de la plus grande foggara d’Algérie : la foggara d’El Meghier. Revue Sécheresse, Vol. 19, n°3, 217-221.

REMINI B., ACHOUR B., KECHAD R. (2010). Les types de foggaras en Algérie. Revue Sciences de l’eau (Canada- France), Vol. 23, n°2, 105-117.

REMINI B., ACHOUR B., ALBERGEL J. (2011). Timimoun’s foggara (Algeria): An heritage in danger, DOI: 10.1007/s12517-010-0139-9 Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer), Vol. 4, n° 3, 495- 506

REMINI B., ACHOUR B., KECHAD R. (2012). Traditional techniques for increasing the discharge from qanats in Algeria, DOI: 10.1007/S10795-012-9125-6, Journal of irrigation and drainage systems (Springer),. Vol. 25, n° 4, 293-306

REMINI B., KECHAD R. (2012). The foggara in the Arab world. Journal of Geographia Technica (indexé scopus), n° 1, 1-7.

REMINI B., ACHOUR A., OULED BELKHIR C., BABA AMAR D. (2012). The Mzab foggara: an original technique for collecting the water rising. J. Water Land Dev., No16 (I–VI): 49–53

REMINI B., ACHOUR B. (2013). The qanat of the greatest western Erg. Journal American Water Works Association, 105 (5), May, 104-105.

SANLAVILLE P. (1957). Les centres de cultures de l’Ahaggar. Revue de Geographie de Lyon, Vol. 32, n°4, 333-341.


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.