Gallery 02 - of Africa - Summer 2006
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The borders of Mauritania and Senegal
Islam, the dominant religion in Senegal, first came to the region in the 11th century.
The Sénégal River is a 1,790 km long river in West Africa, that forms the border between Senegal and Mauritania.
It was visited by Hanno the Carthaginian around 450 BC at his navigation from Carthage through the pillars of Herakles to Theon Ochema (Mount Cameroon) in the Gulf of Guinea. There was trade from here to the Mediterranean World, until the destruction of Carthage and its west African trade net in 146 BC.
Local fishrmen in senegal river
Cemetery
Dakar is the capital city of Senegal, located on the Cap-Vert Peninsula, on the country's Atlantic coast.
The Senegalese landscape consists mainly of the rolling sandy plains of the western Sahel which rise to foothills in the southeast.
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