LEG is the airport code for Aleg, a town in the southwest of Mauritania, in northwest Africa, the capital of the Brakna region. It lies in the semi-desert Sahel country of southern Mauritania, in a landscape of sandy plains, scattered acacia and seasonal water, between the Sahara to the north and the greener valley of the Senegal river to the south. Aleg is a modest administrative and market town serving the surrounding pastoral and farming region, near a seasonal lake, rather than a tourist destination. It is a local centre in a remote, arid part of the country, home to Moorish and other peoples with their desert and Sahelian cultures. Aleg is reached by road from the capital, Nouakchott, and other towns, and by a local airstrip. The climate is hot and dry, with a short rainy season and a long, very hot dry season.
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