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