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THE MOROCCAN SAHARA

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              The Moroccan Sahara includes Saguiet El Hamra to the north and Oued El Dahab "Rio DE Oro" to the south, the total land area of the Moroccan Sahara is 266 000 km square, crossed by the Tropic between the 20th and 30th parallel. It's bordered to the north by Massa Darâa to the east by Algeria to the south by Mauritania and to the west by the Atlantic, most of the reliefs are plains and some table lands which rarely reach 400 meters height. Generally, we can divide the Sahara into different zones: north-eastern part, from Al Atlas ranges to Zemmour hills, which is a rocky desert "Hmada" with steep mountains and hilly relief, water is rare except for some wells which makes life very difficult. The second zone or river zone is located between Oued Drâa to the north and Jat to the west, rivers tend to be depressions where water flows during the short rainy seasons "mainly in fall" this water evaporated because of the hot weather and never r