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Afourar in photographs

The town from the air, the power station on the mountain, the mandarins and the horsemen.

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Afourar in pictures

Five images of the town, its power station, its mandarins and its horsemen. Select any photograph to see it larger.

Afourar photographed from the air at sunset: the town’s rooftops and minaret in the foreground, the irrigated fields, olive groves and main canal of the Tadla plain beyond, under an orange and violet sky — Afourar at sunset, looking north across the Tadla plain. The straight line crossing the middle distance is the irrigation canal fed from Bin El Ouidane.

Two large penstock pipes descending a green Atlas hillside to the Afourar hydroelectric power house, with the town’s ochre buildings and terraced gardens below — The penstocks of the Afourar hydroelectric complex, dropping to the power house above the town.

Ripe Nadorcott mandarins with stems and glossy green leaves piled on a weathered wooden table beside a linen cloth — Nadorcott mandarins — the easy-peel variety selected at the INRA station outside Afourar in 1982.

Six tbourida riders in white robes and red sashes advancing abreast on decorated Barb horses with muskets raised, the town of Afourar and the Atlas foothills behind them — Tbourida in front of the town. The performance is judged on how perfectly the line holds and whether the volley sounds as one shot.

Afourar’s dense ochre and terracotta rooftops around a white minaret at sunset, with olive groves and the flat irrigated plain stretching to distant hills — The older core of the town at dusk, with the plain behind.

Have photographs of Afourar?

This gallery should be much bigger: the souk, the dam road, the orchards in flower, the villa quarter, the lake at full pool, winter snow on the Atlas seen from the plain. If you have pictures of the town and are happy for them to appear here with a credit, we would like to see them.

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