Tineghir, located in Moroccan south-east, with leaving the High Atlas and vis-a-vis the jbel Sarhro, fact part of the area of Ouarzazate. The name of Tineghir indicated the administrative center initially, but it extended little by little to gather all the villages of the neighborhoods and to give this name to all the oasis. The city itself of Tineghir would count 10.500 inhabitants while the oasis as a whole would add up approximately 80.000 inhabitants. Tineghir, just like the area of Ouarzazate, is populated the Berber ones. Tineghir is in the center of one of the most beautiful oases of the Moroccan south. This luxuriant palm plantation extends on approximately 30 km out of 500 to 1500 m broad while following the Todgha wadi. With leaving the Throats, the Todgha wadi spawning time with difficulty a passage on the southern slopes of the large atlas (Tizgui), then leads in the large plain to curve slightly to a score of kilometers until Ferkla. The palm plantation of Todgha, very dense and very wide, is composed only of two banks of the wadi Todgha, it is irrigated by a network of drains which one calls tirgouine (plural prided). Absorptive by a great number of these irrigation canals, the water of the Todgha wadi generally does not arrive until Ferkla. Its bed crosses Ferkla for then throwing itself in Ghris, but water arrives there only at the time of strong risings and that lasts generally only a few days. The economy of the city rests primarily on agriculture, the trade and the related services with tourism. Several families live transfers of their immigrant close relations in Europe. Sociocultural activities have known a strong growth for these five last years, of the projects aiming at the education of the young children multiply in a great number of villages of the city, and also of the projects of elimination of illiteracy aiming at the adult people and in particular the women, set up themselves. These projects are supported by a great number of associations on the spot and abroad (GTF, APS, Atlassolidarité, ASEKTER and much of others).

Natural geography:

Tineghir is an immense oasis extending on approximately 30 km length and varying width between a few kilometers upstream and 4 km downstream. The climate of the area of Tineghir is of the arid type of the subtropics, i.e. heat and dryness, to which are added fresh winters, in relation to altitude (approximately 1430 meters). It rains only a few days there per annum, the most important precipitations taking place especially in autumn and winter. The area of Tineghir is wedged between two mountainous solid masses, extending on more than 700 km length, of south-west in the North-East of Morocco: The High Atlas in culminating north with more 4167m (Jbel Toubkal). The Anti-Atlas in the south whose Jbel Sarhro is continuity. One speaks then about furrow South-Atlasique, where the road going of Ouarzazate is located besides to er Rachidia. During the secondary era, this area was invaded periodically by the sea, from where thick deposits of sediments rich in marine fossils (ammonites being largely represented). The uplift of the atlas, during the tertiary sector mainly, causes the withdrawal of the sea and the deformations of the layers of rocks (folds, faults). Wind and river erosion finishes working this desert landscape of rocks limestones and argillaceous. The Todra river dug during time these layers of rocks, which gave rise to impressive high of 300m but broad throats only of 10m at certain places. This river widens then and on its edges an oasis of greenery develops (kitchen gardens, palm trees - date palms…) slicing radically with the colors red blood stone of this stone desert (reg.).

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