Timimoun was born of a magic encounter: the emergence of very former the outcrop of ancient groundwater, and the strong slope trimming the immense tray of the Tadmait to the extremity of which she is constructed, dominating the flood of the first dunes of this immense sea of sand that constitutes the big western erg of the Sahara...  The genius of the men of the desert next did to be productive this exceptional geological position: a network of catchment of underground waters was conceived, that driving precisely to the edge of the plateau, where a clever distribution in assures the equitable and division optimum.  Of tiny canals direct about every bit of land, about every laid out terrace, about every garden, this precious and rare water that sudden does to turn green the red sand.