Tensift River

Oued Tensift ( 1970s)

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The Oued Tensift or Tansift Oued (Arabic: تانسيفت ) is an important river in the southwest of Morocco with a maximum length ( with the inclusion of the source rivers ) of about 250 km in the spring and only 100 km in summer and autumn. The length of the Oued Tensift varies depending on the season, the winter rains and the ( non-) inclusion of source rivers.

Geography

Actually, you can only speak from Marrakech from Oued Tensift. The further southeast, countless smaller streams and rivers, which are often nameless, lead only in winter and spring water. The two main tributary rivers ( Oued Zat and Oued Ghmat ) originate in the High Atlas. The Oued Tensift flows about 10 km north of Marrakech, in a westerly direction through the Haouz plain and flows about 33 km south of Safi in the Atlantic.

Function

The Oued Tensift primarily serves the irrigation of agricultural land in the Haouz plain.

Tributaries

  • Oued Nfiss (French N'Fiss )
  • Oued Chichaoua (French Chichaoua, also Shishāwah )

Canal de rocade

About the beginning of the 1970s already completed Canal de rocade a part of the waters of springing in the High Atlas Oued Tessaout is diverted into the Oued Nfiss and ultimately in the Oued Tensift.

Reservoirs

So far, the Oued Tensift itself - because of the sandy and mostly flat terrain through which it flows - not jammed. The Oued Nfiss, the most important tributary of the Oued Tensift, however, has two reservoirs:

  • Barrage Lalla Takerkoust (about 40 km south of Marrakech )
  • Barrage Yacoub El Mansour ( about 60 km south of Marrakech in Ouirgane )
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