Draa River

The first one in Top 10 Longest Rivers in Morocco that Toplist would like to introduce to you is Draa River. With a length of 1,100 kilometers, the Draa is the longest river in Morocco (680 mi). It is formed by the meeting of the Dadès and Imini rivers. It flows from the High Atlas mountains south-eastward to Tagounite, then mostly westward to its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean north of Tan-Tan. The dam (El) Mansour Eddahabi was built in 1971 to serve the regional capital of Ouarzazate and to regulate the flow of the Draa. The section of the Draa after Tagounite is dry for the majority of the year.

Draa water is used to irrigate palm groves and small farms along the river. The Draa's inhabitants are known as Drawa in Arabic, Shilha Idrawiyn in Shilha Idrawiyn in Shilha Idrawiyn in Shilha Idrawiyn in Shilha Idrawiyn in Shilha Idrawiyn in Shilha Idrawiyn in Shilha Idrawiyn in Shilha Idrawiyn in Shilha Idrawiyn in Shilha Idrawiyn Outside of the Draa region, this name is mostly used to refer to the Draa's dark-skinned people, who make up the majority of its inhabitants.

The lowest course of the Draa marked the boundary between the French protectorate of Morocco and the area under Spanish rule in the first half of the twentieth century.

The Draa valley, which covers 23,000 square kilometers, is home to approximately 225,000 people (8,900 sq mi). In the Souss-Massa-Drâa region, the valley corresponds to the province of Zagora, which was established in 1997. There are 23 villages and two towns in the province: Zagora and Agdz. Tamegroute, close to Zagora, is well known for its Zawiya.

The valley contains the Fezouata formations, which are Lower Ordovician Burgess shale-type deposits that fill an important preservational window between the common Cambrian lagerstätten and the Late Ordovician Soom shale. Numerous organisms previously thought to have died out after the mid-Cambrian were found in the fossilized fauna.

Length: 1100 km (684 mi)