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El Guettar
Gafsatown
Demographic figures from INS Tunisia. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Overview
El Guettar sits in Gafsa, Tunisia and is identified as a town. El Guettar maps to 34.339°, 8.950° — squarely within the warm temperate belt. Up-to-date population figures for this locality are not available in the open datasets we monitor. Its latitude implies a climate characterised by warm summers and cool winters. The location receives about 1,992 kWh/m² of solar irradiance per year and sunshine for roughly 78% of daylight hours. Additional figures on demographics, climate, geography and points of interest appear in the sections that follow, all drawn from open public datasets.
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History & geography
Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
Climate
Air quality
Walkability
Amenities nearby
Wildlife & biodiversity
Most-observed species
- Ocellated Bronze SkinkChalcides ocellatus (Forskal, 1775) · Squamata3
- Forskal Sand SnakePsammophis schokari (Forskal, 1775) · Squamata3
- Culicoides odiatus Austen, 1921Culicoides odiatus Austen, 1921 · Insecta2
- Culicoides scoticus Downes & Kettle, 1952Culicoides scoticus Downes & Kettle, 1952 · Insecta2
- Culicoides montanus Shakirzyanova, 1962Culicoides montanus Shakirzyanova, 1962 · Insecta2
- Culicoides kibunensis Tokunaga, 1937Culicoides kibunensis Tokunaga, 1937 · Insecta2
- Culicoides imicola Kieffer, 1913Culicoides imicola Kieffer, 1913 · Insecta2
- Culicoides obsoletus (Meigen, 1818)Culicoides obsoletus (Meigen, 1818) · Insecta2
Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
Earthquake history
Most recent
- M 4.2 — 2026-01-1312 km WSW of Mezzouna, Tunisia
- M 4.4 — 2025-04-0924 km WSW of Mezzouna, Tunisia
- M 4.7 — 2025-02-0320 km W of Mezzouna, Tunisia
- M 4.4 — 2024-12-1535 km SSW of Kasserine, Tunisia
- M 5 — 2023-04-047 km ESE of Chebika, Tunisia
- M 4.3 — 2019-06-103 km NNW of Metlaoui, Tunisia
Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).
Photos
Sights & places nearby
Notable people from here
People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.
Nearby places in Gafsa
- Gafsa11.1 mi away · pop. 111,170
- El Borj13.4 mi away
- Moularès39.9 mi away · pop. 24,487
- Rozstání1115.3 mi away · pop. 565
- Tištín1115.7 mi away · pop. 522
- Těšice1116.3 mi away · pop. 68
- Pavlovice u Kojetína1116.3 mi away · pop. 309
- Srbce1116.6 mi away · pop. 91
- Dřevnovice1116.6 mi away · pop. 490
- Želeč1116.9 mi away · pop. 558
- Nezamyslice1117 mi away · pop. 1,209
- Vitčice1117.5 mi away · pop. 189
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
Nearby airports
Public attention
Books about this place
Recent natural events nearby
Ground air-quality sensors
Recently spotted species
Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).
Events
Gallery
Sources
- • Wikidata
- • USGS Earthquake Catalog (global feed)
- • GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)
- • iNaturalist
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org