Sabkha Zamoul[1] is a salt lake situated in the northeastern region of Algeria, within the administrative boundaries of the Oum El Bouaghi Province and the Ouled Zouaï municipality.

The lake is replenished by precipitation that percolates through an 8,900-hectare catchment area, and the site also functions as a repository for wastewater from a number of smaller neighboring communities.

[6] The site is situated within a climate zone that is classified as semi-arid to arid, with precipitation levels ranging from 100 to 400 mm per year.

[6] The climate of this region is characterized by cold, rainy winters, with a minimum temperature of 2.9 degrees Celsius, and hot, dry summers, with the potential for droughts lasting six months or more.

[8] Additionally, the region is home to a number of other notable species, including northern shoveler, white storks, pied avocet, common cranes, black-headed gull, black-winged stilt, eurasian curlew, little stint, kentish plover, and gull-billed tern.