Skoura
Skoura is a town in Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet, Saharan Morocco. It consists of a modern town as well as a historical oasis and palmeraie with traditional rammed-earth architecture.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: PetarM, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Loranchet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 4,730 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Skoura des Ahl el Oust”
Skoura
- Categories: center and locality
- Location: Skoura, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
31.06041° or 31° 3′ 38″ northLongitude
-6.55755° or 6° 33′ 27″ westPopulation
4,730Elevation
1,226 metres (4,022 feet)Open location code
8C3M3C6R+5XOpenStreetMap ID
node 1866580814OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2532628Wikidata ID
Q986666
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Skoura” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المركز الحضري سكورة”
- Arabic: “سكورة”
- Arabic: “واحة سكورة”
- Catalan: “Skoura”
- Cebuano: “Skoura”
- Dutch: “Skoura”
- Egyptian Arabic: “واحة سكوره”
- French: “centre urbain de Skoura”
- French: “Skoura”
- German: “Skoura”
- Italian: “Skoura”
- Persian: “سکوره”
- Portuguese: “Skoura”
- South Azerbaijani: “سکوره”
- Swedish: “Skoura”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Skoura”. Photo: Loranchet, CC BY-SA 3.0.