Hamet Jerid
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El Hamma du Jérid
حامة الجريد | |
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Commune and town | |
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| Country |  Tunisia |
| Governorate | Tozeur Governorate |
| Government | |
| • mayor | Mohamed Bechir Souli[1] |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 6 439 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
El Hamma du Jérid is a town and commune in the Tozeur Governorate, Tunisia. As of 2004 it had a population of 6,259.[2]
Geography
El Hamma of Jerid or El Hamma of Djerid (Arabic: حامة الجريد) is a town located nine kilometers north of Tozeur in the Jerid region at 34 ° 00 'North, 8 ° 09' East.
El Hamma is an oasis whose palm grove is exploited since Roman times as evidenced by the ruins located at a place called Guebbech (ڤباش). It was fed by twenty sources including six hot springs; the water is chlorinated, sodium and sulphurous for some of them (37-40 ° C). Not long ago, people came again to take baths. Today these springs are fed by modern deep boreholes. The water that comes out is of higher temperature (75 ° C) 3.
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Economics
Palm plantations dominate the area.[3]There are about 700 hectares and has about 110,000 palm trees of many different cultivars. Today Today the modern palm groves of El Hamma, created in the twentieth century, only have date palm cultivar producing dates.
In the 1934 the national poet of Tunisia, Abu el Kacem Chebbi, would vacation Here.[4]
See also
References
- ^ https://www.tap.info.tn/fr/Elections-Municipales-2018/10338995-tozeur-municipales
- ^ Template:Fr icon Recensement de 2004 (Institut national de la statistique) Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Vincent Battesti, Jardins au désert : évolution des pratiques et savoirs oasiens, Jérid tunisien, (Paris, IRD, 2005) p. 261
- ^ http://www.khayma.com/salehzayadneh/poets/shabbi/shabbi%20nobzah.htm
34°01′14″N 8°10′37″E / 34.0205°N 8.17692°E
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