La Aguera came into existence in 1920, when Spain established an air base on the western side of the Ras Nouadhibou[?] (Cape Blanco) peninsula, just a few miles away from the French Fort Etienne[?] (now Nouadhibou[?]) on the eastern side of the same peninsula. (In the 1912 Convention of Madrid[?], Spain and France had agreed on a border between Mauritania and Spanish possessions that ran down the middle of the peninsula.)
In June 1920, Spain issued postage stamps of its existing colony Rio de Oro[?] overprinted "LA AGÜERA", and followed those up in 1922 with a series portraying King Alfonso XIII and inscribed "SAHARA OCCIDENTAL / LA AGUERA". These were superseded in 1924 by stamps of Spanish Sahara[?]. The stamps of La Aguera are not rare, typically costing about one US$ either used or unused, but because of the small population (probably less than 1,000 persons) and short period of validity, non-philatelic uses on cover are likely to be hard to find.
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