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[[File:Morocco_Protectorate.svg|thumb|Río de Oro (at bottom) during Spanish colonisation ]]
[[File:Western sahara landscape.jpg|thumb|Desolate landscape terrain in the Río de Oro region,
[[File:Stamp Rio de Oro 1907 Alphonso XIII 3c.jpg|thumb|Stamp of Rio de Oro issued in 1907.]]
'''Río de Oro''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]] for "Gold River"; {{Lang-ar|وادي الذهب}}, ''wādī-að-ðahab'', often transliterated as ''Oued Edhahab'') was, with [[Saguia el-Hamra]], one of the two territories that formed the [[Spain|Spanish]] province of [[Spanish Sahara]] after 1969; it had been taken as a [[Spanish Empire|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. The river was thought to have largely dried out – a [[wadi]], as the name indicates – or have disappeared underground.
The Spanish
Occupying the southern part of Western Sahara, the territory lies between 26° to the north and 21° 20' to the south. The area is roughly {{Convert|184,000|km|mi|abbr=on}}, making it approximately two thirds of the entire Western Sahara.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=O0zODQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1332&dq=rio+de+oro|title=The Statesman's Year-Book 1971-72: The Businessman's Encyclopaedia of all nations|last=Paxton|first=J.|date=2016-12-28|publisher=Springer|year=|isbn=9780230271005|location=|pages=1332|language=en}}</ref> The former provincial capital founded by the Spanish was Villa Cisneros, which was renamed under Moroccan administration in 1976 "[[Dakhla, Western Sahara|ad-Dakhla]]".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z0OeCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA412&dq=Villa+Cisneros&f=false|title=Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998|last=Law|first=Gwillim|date=1999-10-01|publisher=McFarland|year=|isbn=9780786460977|location=|pages=412|language=en}}</ref>
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