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© Maria Lucia DornasIfrane The Atlas lion
The Middle Atlas is part of the Atlas mountain range, a vast mountainous region with more than 100,000 km2
The first real town of the Middle Atlas, AZROU
Azrou grew at the crossroads of two major routes – north to Meknes and Fez, south to Khenifra and Midelt – and long held a strategic role in controlling the mountain Berbers. Moulay Ismail built a kasbah here, the remains of which survive, while more recently the French established the prestigious Collège Berbère – one plank in their policy to split the country’s Berbers from the urban Arabs
Azrou college
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Azrou is 89 kilometres south of Fez, at an altitude of 1250 m and surrounded by mountains covered with green oak and cedar
The city was long neglected by the Moroccan authorities since independence in 1956 to the detriment of the nearby town of Ifrane
Azrou is the Berber word for rock and town takes its name from the huge rock mountain near the centre of town.
Azrou is a town with much to see even if what you won't find are berber carpets. But you can see three carpets on a wall
Berber rugs from Berber village
You won't find fresher fruits unless you pick them yourself
The mosque Annour (Alaouites)
South of Azrou lies some of the most remote and beautiful country of the Middle Atlas: a region of dense cedar forests
The Cèdre Gouraud Forest is located to the north, where one of the sub-populations of the Barbary macaque, Macaca sylvanus (called magots) is found
The driving distance between Azrou and Khenifra, the heart of the Middle Atlas, is 81 km
Oum Er-Rbia River ("the mother of
springtime“) the second-largest river
in Morocco after the Sebou River, is
555 km long
Khenifra’s walls were red washed, to absorb the sun
Khenifra (population 118,000) is
surrounded by the Atlas
Mountains and located on
the Oum Er-Rbia River
Khenifra is inhabited
by Zayanes, a Berber tribe, and
the language
spoken is a variety
of Central Atlas
Tamazight
Khenifra National Park is east of the town, and
contains forests of Atlas
cedars (Cedrus atlantica)
Cedrus atlantica, the Atlas cedar, is a cedar native to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco (Middle Atlas, High Atlas), to the Rif, and to the Tell Atlas in Algeria. A majority of the modern sources treat it as a distinct species Cedrus atlantica, but some sources consider it a subspecies of Lebanon cedar (C. libani subsp. atlantica)
Red Soil of Africa "The Shona say the color comes from all the blood that's being spilled fighting over the land.."
Barrage Ahmed El Hansali on the river Oum Er Rbia at the northern foot of the Middle Atlas mountains near Khenifra
Sound: Yosefa - A postcard from Morocco 2016
Text: InternetPictures: Sanda Negruțiu Sanda Foişoreanu InternetCopyright: All the images belong to their authors
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