Nador Province
The 3,000 km ² and about 580,000 inhabitants Moroccan province of Nador ( Berber: Tamnadt n'Nadur; Arabic: إقليم الناظور ) belongs to the Oriental region. The capital is the city of Nador. The province surrounds the Spanish enclave of Melilla.
Geography
Location
The Nador Province is bounded on the east by the province of Berkane, in the southeast of the province Taouirt, on the southwest by the province Guercif, on the west by the province Driouch and in the north and north-east by the Mediterranean Sea.
Landscape
The landscape profile - apart from the coastal lagoon of the Mar Chica - is dominated by the eastern foothills of the Rif Mountains and thus correspondingly hilly. Individual peaks reach heights of just over 1000 m.
Climate
Through the influence of the Mediterranean, the summer daily temperatures are depending on cloudiness 30-40 ° C; at night it cools down to 20 to 25 ° C. In winter it is much cooler during the day (15 to 25 ° C); at night the temperature is between 10 and 15 ° C. In the four winter months of November to February, most of the rain of the year.
Population
The approximately 580,000 inhabitants of the province are mostly Berber; the proportion of Arab- descent persons likely to be around 5 to 10 %. Many Berbers have migrated to the small and medium-sized cities only since the 1970s in search of work and a better life from their ancestral home regions. While the Berbers are mostly active in trade, retail trade, transportation, occupies the Arab- burly of the population in general, the leading positions in administration, banking, commerce and industry; In addition, they work as lawyers, doctors, engineers etc.. About half the population lives in urban communities ( communes urbaines ), the other half in rural communities ( communes rurales ), which, however, have already partially developed into small towns. In larger cities, Moroccan Arabic is spoken; in the country have survived the various dialects of Berber ( Tamazight and Tarifit ).
Economy
While the inhabitants of the region earlier primarily as a semi-nomadic ( transhumant ) or lived as subsistence agriculture, is produced for the urban markets by improving the infrastructure during and after the French colonial period more and more. On the fertile soils (barley and wheat) is grown primarily grain. In the cities as a result of migration and division of labor developed a momentum of its own, which sometimes takes quite European trains. Nador ( Beni Ansar ) is the most important fishing and ferry port on the Moroccan Mediterranean coast, linking Nador to the A2 motorway (Rabat- Fez - Oujda ) is tackled and south of the city there is an international airport ( IATA code: NDR), which also operates regular flights to Germany (see web link). Tourism plays in the region so far, only a minor role; This should change with the expansion of a peninsula, north of the city of Nador Beni Ansar.
History
The relatively flat terrain around Nador served the Muslim rulers of Morocco repeated as a staging area for the - ultimately futile - recapture Melilla, most recently under the Alawidensultan Moulay Muhammad in the 18th century. On August 7, 1856 came at Cap des Trois Fourches to a battle between Prussian Marines of the corvette Danzig under the leadership of Admiral and Prince Adalbert of Prussia and armed Rifberbern ( battle of Tres Forcas ).
Attractions
Historically or culturally significant attractions - apart from Melilla - there is not in the province of Nador. In terms of landscape the northern tip of the province, the Cap des Trois Fourches is worth seeing, but the westernmost province neighboring Driouch in this respect much more interesting.