Ubari

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title: "Ubari" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-wadi-al-hayaa-district", "oases-of-libya", "tuareg", "baladiyat-of-libya", "berber-populated-places", "oasis-towns"] topic_path: "general/populated-places-in-wadi-al-hayaa-district" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubari" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
official_name	Ubari
other_name	Awbari
native_name	أوباري
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subdivision_name	Libya
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subdivision_name1	Fezzan
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Wadi al Hayaa
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timezone	UTC+2
coordinates
elevation_footnotes
elevation_m	468
postal_code_type
registration_plate_type	License Plate Code
registration_plate	24
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Ubari or Awbari () is an oasis town and the capital of the Wadi al Hayaa District, in the Fezzan region of southwestern Libya. It is in the Idehan Ubari, a Libyan section of the Sahara Desert. It was the capital of the former baladiyah (district) called Awbari, in the southwest of the country.

Geography

Ubari is in the Targa valley, lying between the Messak Sattafat plateau and Idhan Ubari erg sand dunes and lakes. Native plants include wetland grasses at the natural spring-fed lakes' shorelines, and the native Saharan date palm (Phoenix dactylifera).

Ubari is located in one of the sunniest and driest areas in the world. It has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh) with short, very warm winters but long, extremely hot summers. Average annual rainfall is one of the lowest on the planet with only 8 mm (0.31 in) and many decades may easily pass without any rainfall at all. Ubari has permanent, unlimited sunshine and clear skies all year round and in all seasons. Clouds are extremely rare over this bone-dry land. Average high temperatures exceed 40 °C (104 °F) from June to September.

NC186 is an oil field in southwest Ubari, operated by Repsol.

Libyan civil wars

During the 2011 Libyan civil war, the town was captured by the forces of the National Transitional Council on 22 September 2011.

On 19 November 2011, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and a few associates were captured and detained about 50 kilometers west of Ubari as they were trying to flee to neighbouring Niger.

References

References

1. [https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Awbari Wolfram Alpha]
2. Fahim, Kareem. "NATO Extends Libya Bombing Campaign". [[New York Times]].
3. (19 November 2011). "Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam captured in Libya". BBC.

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