About Tafraout
Tafraout (in Arabic: تافراوت) is a small Berber town in the Moroccan Anti-Atlas, located 180 km south of Agadir in the heart of the Ammeln Valley, in the middle of a circus of pink granite rocks, famous for its colours.
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Tafraout (in Arabic: تافراوت) is a small Berber town in the Moroccan Anti-Atlas, located 180 km south of Agadir in the heart of the Ammeln Valley, amidst a circle of pink granite rocks, famous for its colours.
Tafraout is surrounded by a myriad of rocks of various shapes, rising above a palm grove that shelters argan trees and plantations of almond and olive trees. In spring, the Tafraout valley offers a magnificent spectacle when the almond trees are in bloom.
The Chleuh or Ichelḥiyen inhabitants of the Tafraout valley cultivate cereals and multiple fruit trees, including almond trees. During the 60s and 70s, a significant part of its population expatriated from the region due to drought and now runs businesses or other financial or commercial activities almost everywhere, in Morocco and beyond.
Tafraout is the birthplace of the great Moroccan writer Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine.
The tribes closest to Tafraout are Ammeln, Tahala, Ida Osemlal, Aît wafka, Amanouz, Ait Bounouh, and Tasrirt.
