The Ouergha River or Oued Ouerrha ( Berber: Asif n Wergha)(

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:واد ورغة) is a watercourse in

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 ...

that is tributary to the

Sebou River Sebou (Berber: Asif en Sbu, ar, سبو) is a river in northern Morocco. At its source in the Middle Atlas mountains it is known as the Guigou River (Berber: Asif n Gigu). The river is 496 kilometers long and has an average water flow of 137 m3 ...

History

The Ouergha River was a key battle site in the French invasion of Morocco in the year 1924. The French, encouraging the fighting of native Moroccan tribes among each other, advanced with 12,000 troops to a crossing of the Ouergha and achieved a major victory here without a shot being fired.

Natural history

In the upper parts of the watershed within the Middle Atlas is the prehistoric range of the

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primate Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians ( monkeys and apes, the latter including ...

Barbary macaque, which animal prehistorically had a much larger range in North Africa.C. Michael Hogan. 2008

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References

* C. Michael Hogan. 2008
''Barbary Macaque: Macaca sylvanus'', GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
* William A. Hoisington. 2005. ''Lyautey and the French conquest of Morocco'' Rivers of Morocco {{Morocco-river-stub

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