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[[ImageFile:Morocco_Protectorate.svg|thumb|left|240px|Río de Oro is located at the bottom of this map of North Western Africa during the Spanish colonization.]]
[[ImageFile:Western sahara landscape.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Desolate landscape terrain in the Río de Oro region, near the town of [[Guerguerat]]]]
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[[Image:Western sahara landscape.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Desolate landscape terrain in the Río de Oro region, near the town of [[Guerguerat]]]]
'''Río de Oro''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]] for "[[Gold]] River", [[Arabic language|Arabic]]: وادي الذهب ''wādī-að-ðahab'', often transliterated as Oued Edhahab), is, with [[Saguia el-Hamra]], one of the two territories that formed the [[Spain|Spanish]] province of [[Spanish Sahara]] after 1969; it was originally taken as a Spanish colonial possession in the late 19th century. Its name seems to come from an east-west [[river]] which was supposed to have run through it formerly. The river was thought to have largely dried out - a [[wadi]], as the name indicates - or have disappeared underground.