Araouane or Arawan is a small village in the Malian Sahara, lying 243 km (151 mi) north of Timbuktu on the caravan route to Taoudenni. The village once served as an entrepôt in the trans-Saharan trade. Araouane has just over 300 inhabitants divided into 45 families. Only around 40 men are permanently resident, the others are migrant workers, mostly employed in the salt mines of Taoudenni.
The small village contains three mosques: the Kunta mosque, the Friday mosque and the Sidi Ahmed Ag Ada mosque. Araouane once had a significantly larger population. At the time of a visit by a unit of the French camel corps (méharistes) in 1906, the village had between 900 and 1000 inhabitants.
The surrounding desert is completely barren and the harmattan wind blows sand that accumulates against the walls of the buildings. The rainfall is too little to permit any agriculture and the village is dependent on the caravan trade which nowadays is restricted to the transport of salt blocks from the mines at Taoudenni, 420 km to the north. Between the 16th and 19th centuries Araouane acted as an entrepôt in the important trans-Sahara trade.

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