Sidi Boulaalam (Arabic: سيدي بولعلام) is a small town and rural commune in Essaouira Province, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco. It is about 145 kilometres (90 mi) southwest of Casablanca, north of Route 207 (the Essaouira-Marrakesh road), along Route 2202 between Sidi Aissa Regragui to the northwest and Route 2200 to Tafetachte.[3]
Sidi Boulaalam | |
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Rural commune and town | |
  Sidi Boulaalam Location of Sidi Boulaalam within Morocco | |
| Coordinates: 31°40′39″N 9°16′21″W / 31.67750°N 9.27250°W | |
| Country |  Morocco |
| Region | Marrakesh-Safi |
| Province | Essaouira |
| Elevation | 453 m (1,486 ft) |
| Population (2014)[2] | |
• Total | 8,142 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (WEST) |
At the time of the 2014 census, the commune had a total population of 8,142 people living in 1,561 households.[2] This was up from the 2004 census of 7,880 people in 1,310 households.[4]
The climate in Sidi Boulaalam is semi-arid, with cooler winters than the coast, freezing occurring in the winter, but it is warmer than the coast in summer. The Köppen-Geiger climate classification is BSk. The average total annual rainfall is only 327 millimetres (12.9 in), with most of it occurring in the winter, and almost no precipitation in July and August.[1]
Fifteen people were killed and many more injured there during a crowd crush for food in November 2017.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b "Climat: Sidi Boulaalam سيدي بوالاعلام" (in French and Arabic). Oedheim, Germany: AM Online Projects - Alexander Merkel. Archived from the original on 19 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Population Legale des Regions, Provinces, Prefectures, Municipalités, Arrondissements et Communes du Royaume d'apres les Resultats du Recensement General de la Population et de l'Habitat de 2014" (in French). Haut-Commissariat au Plan du Maroc, Royaume du Maroc. Archived from the original on 25 May 2015.
- ^ Map of Sidi Boulaalam (Map). Michelin.
- ^ Haut-commissariat au Plan, Royaume du Maroc. "Recensement général de la population et de l'habitat de 2004" (PDF) (in Arabic and French). Casablanca, Morocco: La Vie éco. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 August 2012.
- ^ "Morocco food stampede 'kills 15 and wounds five'". BBC News. 19 November 2017.