Lagouira (La Agüera) or La Gouera is a town on the Atlantic coast at the southern tip of Western Sahara, on the western sie of the Ras Nouadhibou peninsula. By 2002, it had been abandoned and partially overblown with sand, inhabited only by a few Imraguen fishermen and guarded by a Mauritanian military outpost, despite this not being formally Mauritanian territory. (It is the southernmost town of Western Sahara, claimed by both Morocco and the Polisario Front; however, Lagouira is situated south of the Moroccan Wall, and abandoned by both Moroccan and Polisario forces.)