Ziz (river)

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Oued Ziz
Gorges of the Ziz

Gorges of the Ziz

Data
location Morocco , ( Algeria )
source in the High Atlas
32 ° 28 ′ 42 ″  N , 4 ° 46 ′ 10 ″  W.
muzzle dried up in the Sahara Coordinates: 29 ° 18 ′ 29 ″  N , 4 ° 25 ′ 58 ″  W 29 ° 18 ′ 29 ″  N , 4 ° 25 ′ 58 ″  W

length approx. 282 km
Reservoirs flowed through Hassan Adachil Reservoir 31 ° 59 ′ 38 ″  N , 4 ° 27 ′ 45 ″  W
Date palm oases

Date palm oases

The Ziz , Wadi Ziz or Nahr Ziz ( Arabic واد زيز, DMG Wād Ziz or نهر زيز, Nahr Zīz , Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⵙⵉⴼ ⵏ ⵣⵉⵣ Asif n Ziz , French Oued Ziz ) is a river in the southeast of Morocco ( Meknès-Tafilalet region ), the water of which mostly seeps away southeast of Rissani or even before in the desert sand and is therefore only extremely rarely reached the neighboring Algeria ( Bechar ).

geography

The 282 km long Oued Ziz rises in the eastern High Atlas in Morocco and flows southeast into the Sahara . The Ziz flows through picturesque gorges ( Gorges du Ziz ), the bottom of which is lined with date palm oases , and irrigates the largely flat oasis landscape of the Tafilalet .

places

Important places on the Oued Ziz are Er-Rich , Errachidia (formerly Ksar es Souk ) and Erfoud . It used to run past Rissani and Merzouga ; the historic trading and caravan town of Sijilmassa was once also on the Oued Ziz.

Reservoir

South of the Atlas Mountains or approx. 10 km north of Errachidia, the water of the Oued Ziz is dammed in the Hassan Addakhil Dam ( Barrage Al-Hassan Addakhil ), which was put into operation in 1971 . The approx. 320 million cubic meter reservoir is not used to generate energy, but ensures the drinking water supply of the Tafilalet and prevents flooding and the associated soil erosion after rare but heavy rainfalls.

literature

  • Hsain Ilahiane: Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change. The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis , University Press of America, Lanham 2004.
  • Hsain Ilahiane: The Power of the Dagger, the Seeds of the Koran, and the Sweat of the Plowman. Ethnic Stratification and Agricultural Intensification in the Ziz Valley, Southeast Morocco , PhD, University of Arizona, Tucson 1998.

Web links

Commons : Oued Ziz  - collection of images, videos and audio files