{"id":2164,"date":"2025-05-20T22:07:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T20:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darrana.ma\/iguerferwane-a-valley-beneath-mount-yagour\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T22:07:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T20:07:48","slug":"iguerferwane-a-valley-beneath-mount-yagour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrana.ma\/en\/iguerferwane-a-valley-beneath-mount-yagour\/","title":{"rendered":"Iguerferwane, a valley beneath Mount Yagour"},"content":{"rendered":"The numerous villages of the A\u00eft Bou Sa\u00efd are scattered on both sides of the eponymous wadi, also known as Wadi Lahjar because of the many rocks it carries. Despite the advances of modernity, the inhabitants have preserved their way of life based on agriculture, livestock farming and small-scale crafts.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFrom below, it is difficult to imagine that behind this long and very graphic ridge that bars the vast plain of Marrakech to the south-east, lies a whole world of villages, orchards and mountain pastures.\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Between the two tiers of rocky bars on the horizon lie foothills where life is very active.\r\n<\/em><\/h6>\r\nThe A\u00eft Bou Sa\u00efd wadi, also known as Wadi Lahjar or Assif Ouzrou in Berber (literally \u2018river of stones\u2019 in English), descends directly from two points on the high cliffs of the majestic Yagour, before joining the much lower, dry the Ourika wadi, is a lifeline for countless villages that have sprung up along its waters to irrigate beautiful terraces and live off their crops.\r\n\r\n\r\n
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In this region, the mountains and the mighty Yagour are omnipresent.<\/span><\/h6>\r\n

Given the venerable olive and carob trees, which the inhabitants, proud to have preserved them, claim are over five centuries old and the oldest in the region, it is easy to imagine that their stone houses were built in the same distant times. The region has been populated for a very long time. Isn’t the Yagour plateau above one of the most beautiful sites of rock carvings in the country, dating from between the Neolithic and Bronze Ages ?<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n

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On the trees of the terraces of the wadi Lahjar valley, olive trees several centuries old still live and are still productive.<\/h6>\r\nOn the low-altitude terraces, up to 1,000 metres, and on the sunny slopes, the cold-sensitive olive tree dominates and there are still a few abandoned oil mills where olives were crushed before the arrival of the road. Higher up, it is replaced by walnut, carob and even fig trees on the terraces.\r\n\r\n
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