Souk Lakhmis Dades or Khemis Dades is a
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
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** Communes of ...
in the
Ouarzazate Province
Ouarzazate Province ( ar, إقليم ورزازات, ʾiqlīm Warzāzāt; french: province de Ouarzazate) is a province in the administrative region of Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco. Its population in 2004 was 499,980.
The major cities and towns are:
...
of the
Souss-Massa-Drâa
Souss-Massa-Drâa (; ber, ⵙⵓⵙ ⵎⴰⵙⴰ ⴷⵔⴰ) was formerly one of the sixteen regions of Morocco from 1997 to 2015. It covered an area of 70,880 km² and had a population of 3,601,917 (2014 census). The capital is Agadir. One o ...
administrative region of
Morocco
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. At the time of the
2004 census, the commune had a total population of 16387 people living in 2400 households.
Khemis Dades is a locality takes its name from the day of the
souk
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, Thursday (“Khemis” in
Berber
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Ethnic group
* Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa
* Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages
Places
* Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile
People with the surname
* Ady Berber (1913–196 ...
and Arabic), as well as from the Dades Valley. The commune consists of several villages or
douars. Each village bears the name of the
tribe
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that lives there, such as:
* Ait Boulemane
* Ait Bouhrrou
* Ait Alouane
* Ait Boubker
* Tansgharte
Infrastructure
Khemis Dades has a
post office
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, a
dispensary
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, several
primary schools
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and several high schools/secondary schools, including "Sidi Bouyahia", " Abd el Karim el Khatabi", "Ait Uzin", and "Zawit el Biaar". 15042 people live in Souk el Khemis Dades as of 12 October 2018.
Festivals
The Festival of Me goun Dadès is organized annually and comprises subjects relative to various sets of themes, like film, artistic evenings and other sporting and cultural programs.
References
Populated places in Ouarzazate Province
Rural communes of Drâa-Tafilalet
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