Agwanit
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Agwanit أغوانيت Aghoueinit |
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| Municipality and town | |
 Agwanit
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| Coordinates: 22°11′0″N 13°7′59″W / 22.18333°N 13.13306°W | |
| Country | Western Sahara |
| Claimed by |
 Kingdom of Morocco, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
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| Controlled by |
Sahrawi Republic
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| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Elevation | 306 m (1,004 ft) |
Agounit (also transliterated Aghounit, Aghoueinit, Agueinit, Agwenit, Agwanit, Agüenit, Aguanit; Arabic: أغوانيت) is a small town or village in the Río de Oro area of Western Sahara. It is to the east of the Moroccan Wall, thus included in the Polisario Front-held Free Zone of Western Sahara, under the jurisdiction of the Sahrawi Republic, and near the Mauritanian border, 72 km. south-west from Fderik. It has a hospital, a school and a mosque. It is the head of the 7th military region of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
It is also the name of a daïra of the Wilaya of Auserd, in the Sahrawi refugee camps.
On June 7, 2006, and during the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the "Day of the Martyr" (commemorating the death in combat of El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, first president of the SADR), Mohamed Abdelaziz (president of the SADR) inaugurated a hospital (built up with help from the Basque country government), a desalination centre (built with the help of Andalusia government), a school and the Mayoralty of Agwenit.
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