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Tolin's 2024 World Cruise blog posts, Day 108, Apr 26, 2024, Agadir, Morocco, Post Cards from Agadir

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Agadir  is a major  city  in  Morocco , on the shore of the  Atlantic Ocean  near the foot of the  Atlas Mountains , just north of the point where the  Souss River  flows into the ocean, and 316 miles south of  Casablanca . Agadir is the capital of the  Agadir Ida-U-Tanan Prefecture  and of the  Souss-Massa  economic region. Agadir is one of the major urban centers of Morocco. The municipality of Agadir recorded a population of 924,000 in the  2014 Moroccan census . According to the 2004 census, there were 346,106 inhabitants in that year  and the population of the Prefecture of Agadir-Ida Outanane was 487,954 inhabitants. Agadir is known for being the capital of  Amazigh  culture in Morocco. It is one of the few big Moroccan cities where  Tamazight , one of Morocco's two official languages, is spoken by more than half of the population. The native variety to the region,...

Tolin's 2024 World Cruise blog posts, Day 106, Apr 24, 2024, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands), Spain

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  Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain commonly abbreviated as  Santa Cruz , is a city, the capital of the island of  Tenerife ,  Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife , and one of the capitals of the  Canary Islands , along with  Las Palmas . Santa Cruz has a population of 206,593 (2013) within its administrative limits. The  urban zone  of Santa Cruz extends beyond the city limits with a population of 507,306 and 538,000 within urban area. It is the second largest city in the Canary Islands and the main city on the island of  Tenerife , with nearly half of the island's population living in or around it. Santa Cruz is located in the northeast quadrant of Tenerife, 130 miles off the north-western coast of Africa within the Atlantic Ocean. The distance to the nearest point of mainland Spain is 810 miles. Between the  1833 territorial division of Spain  and 1927, Santa Cruz de Tenerife was the sole capital of the Cana...