Er-Rich is a town in

Midelt Province Midelt is a province in the Morocco, Moroccan economic region of Drâa-Tafilalet. It was created in 2009 from parts of the provinces of Khénifra Province, Khénifra and Errachidia Province, Errachidia. Its centre of administration is the town Mid ...

Drâa-Tafilalet Drâa-Tafilalet ( ar, درعة - تافيلالت, darʿa - tāfīlālt; ber, ⴷⵔⴰ ⵜⴰⴼⵉⵍⴰⵍⵜ, drɛa tafilalt) is one of the twelve regions of Morocco. It covers an area of 88,836 km2 and had a population of 1,635,008 as ...

Region,

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria t ...

. Formerly part of Errachidia Province, it became part of Midelt Province in 2009.Décret 2-09-319, Bulletin officiel du Royaume du Marocarchived
p 1017, 1027 The town originally developed around a

ksar Ksar or qsar (Maghrebi Arabic: wiktionary:قصر, قصر ''qṣer'' or ڭصر ''gser'', plural ''qṣur''; Berber language, Berber: ⵉⴴⵔⵎ ''aghrem'' or ''ighrem'', plural: ''igherman''), plural ksars, qsars, ksour or qsour, is the Nor ...

on a river bank of Oued Ziz on the plains between the mountains, and was an important fortress in previous times. On Mondays the souk is particularly busy. The town of Er-Rich once boasted a small church and a synagogue; the latter had been in use till the end of the sixties, when the Jewish community started leaving the town. The Jewish community had their own school adjacent to the town's elementary school. The rabbi made the daily trip to the local slaughter house to ensure the meat was kosher.

Attractions

Today, many people from the surrounding Ait Merghad, Ait Seghrouchen and other tribes have been flocking to Er-Rich in search of better economic opportunities. Er-Rich is a gateway to the town of Imilchil, near which the annual Bride Market takes place. The Ksar where the notorious Tazmamart prison once stood is about 17 kilometers east of the town. The

thermal springs A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by circ ...

of El Hammat, to which many Moroccan visitors flock on account of their health benefits, lie some 22 kilometers south east of the town.

Errachidia Errachidia ( ar, الرشيدية, Berber: ⵉⵎⴻⵜⵖⴰⵔⵏ Imetɣaren) is a city in Morocco, located in the Errachidia Province, and is the capital of the Drâa-Tafilalet region. The city's residents speak Berber and Moroccan Arabic. ...

Airport is approximately 65 kilometers south of Er-Rich. It presently serves the cities of Casablanca and Fez via Royal Air Maroc and Air Arabia Maroc respectively.

References

Populated places in Midelt Province {{DrâaTafilalet-geo-stub