Calansho Desert


Calanscio Desert is a desert in eastern Libya in Al Wahat District. It is part of the Sahara and has a hot desert climate. It is primarily rocky in the north and center, but forms part of the "Great Sand Sea" to the east and contains the Calanscio Sand Sea to the south. As Sarīr is the only settlement in the Sarīr Kalanshiyū. The Sarir oil field is located in the western Sarīr Kalanshiyū.
It is currently thought that the ancestral Nile flowed through what is now the Calanscio Desert during the Miocene.

Climate

Like most inland deserts it is hot during the day and cold at night, with the average annual temperature being around. The warmest month is August, when the average temperature is and the coldest is January, with. The average annual rainfall is less than. The wettest month is May, with an average rainfall of, and the driest is July, with.