The valley of Drâa

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This road of Ourzazate to Zagora stays one of the most beautiful of Morocco. It is 
at first mountainous, dry and stripped until Agdz, before joining Drâa's class, lined 
with an almost continuous ribbon of palm plantations and cultivated fields, and marked out of magnificent 
Ksour and Kasbas in pisé.

Draa, river of Morocco, long more than 1 000 km, throwing itself into the Atlantic Ocean in the latitude 
of islands the Canarian Islands. Formed by dependent two (oueds Imimi and Darès) been born between 2 000 and 3 000 m 
from height on the Saharan hillside of the Height - atlas, it goes at first to the southeast then, after 
Zagora, towards the southwest. In the crossed(gone through) regions, the drainage is mostly temporary. 

To arrest the rain in the desert 
Near Zagora, in the valley of Dra, in Sahara, a farmer builds a straw partiteur. 
Villages in houses in dried earth, as Zagora, meet themselves çà and there in the desert, 
grouped together near oases. Formerly, long caravans of Moorish traders crossed this 
region with back of camel to exchange, more in the South, enrich, glass pearls and salt against of l now, 
slaves, leather and pepper.

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