Ouazzane Province
1 communes in the urban area and 16 communes in the rural area
- It is located in the Jabala area
- Key demographic indicators:
▪ Area: 1999 square kilometers
▪ Population: 296,299 people (7.6% of the region’s population) in 2022
▪ Density: 148.2 people/km2
▪ Urbanization rate: 23.4% in 2014, mainly rural population.
- Main sector indicators:
- Main Professions:
- agriculture
- tourism
- traditional handicraft
▪ Agriculture is the main activity of the territory with a useful agricultural area of 144,850 hectares
▪ Intensive agriculture dominates the region, with cereal cultivation coming in first place, accounting for 64% of the area.
▪ Olive cultivation occupies an important place in the agricultural activity of the region, accounting for 23% of the surface area.
▪ Ouazzane Province is also a leader in sunflower production, 41% of production and 50% of the area of arable agricultural land is dedicated to this product.
▪ The region is also famous for its high-potential tourism with its 17th-century city, mountain ranges, shrines, hermitages and “shrines”. It is also an important spiritual capital for Sufism.
It is distinguished by its religious character, as it is a place of Islamic and Jewish pilgrimage, especially due to the presence of the tomb of the venerable Rabbi Imran bin Diwan, who died in 1780.
▪ The region is also distinguished by the trade in handicrafts and traditional industry, which plays an important role in trade with advanced artisanal weaving and typical crafts, among which we find: wool weaving, the oldest and most important activity, the Wazzani jalba that ensures the city’s fame, wooden crafts that developed thanks to the abundance of raw materials on offer; Tanneries dating back to the fourteenth century