Draa River

The Draa is 's longest river, at 1,100 kilometres. It is formed by the confluence of the Dadès River and Imini River. It flows from the mountains, initially south-eastward to , and from Tagounite mostly westwards to its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean somewhat north of .
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  • Type: River (intermittent)
  • Description: river in Morocco
  • Also known as: “Asif en Dra”, “Dar’a”, “Dar’a River”, “Dara”, “Dara River”, “Darha”, “Darha River”, “Darʿa”, “Darʿa River”, “Drá”, “Dra River”, “Draâ”, “Drâa-Fluss”, “Lixos”, “Lixus”, “Oued Dr’a”, “Oued Dra”, “Oued Draa”, “Oued Draâ”, “Oued Drâa ⴰⵙⵉⴼ ⵏ ⴷⵔⵄⴰ واد درعة”, “Rio Drà”, “Rio Drâa”, “Uad Dra Maader Sellam”, “Uad Draa”, “Ued Dra”, “Vale do Drá”, “Valle del Draa”, “Vodiy-Dra”, “Wad Dara”, “Wad Dra”, “Wadi Dar’a”, “Wadi Darʿa”, “Wadi Dra”, “Wadi Drâa”, “Wadi-Draa”, “Wadidraa”, “Вади-Драа”, “نهر درعة”, “وادي درعه”, “ഡ്രാ”, and “ドラア・ワジ”

Draa River

Latitude
28.65562° or 28° 39′ 20″ north
Longitude
-11.10586° or 11° 6′ 21″ west
Open location code
7CWCMV4V+6M
Open­Street­Map ID
way 9869395
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­river
Open­Street­Map attribute
intermittent=­yes
Geo­Names ID
2551028
Wiki­data ID
Q486636
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Draa River” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “وادي درعة”
  • Armenian: “Դրաա”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Draa”
  • Basque: “Draa”
  • Belarusian: “Дра”
  • Breton: “Draa”
  • Bulgarian: “Драа”
  • Catalan: “Riu Draa”
  • Cebuano: “Oued Drâa”
  • Chinese: “德拉河”
  • Chuvash: “Уэд-Драа”
  • Croatian: “Draa”
  • Czech: “Dra”
  • Danish: “Drâa”
  • Dutch: “Draa”
  • Esperanto: “Drao”
  • Finnish: “Drâa”
  • French: “Drâa”
  • French: “Oued Drâa”
  • Fulah: “Maayo Draa”
  • Galician: “Río Draa”
  • German: “Oued Drâa”
  • German: “Wadi Draa”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Draa River”
  • Greek: “Ποταμός Ντράα”
  • Hausa: “Kogin Draa”
  • Hebrew: “נהר דרעא”
  • Hindi: “दरा नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Draa”
  • Irish: “Abhainn Draa”
  • Italian: “Draa”
  • Japanese: “ドラア川”
  • Kabyle: “Asif n dra”
  • Korean: “드라강”
  • Lithuanian: “Dra”
  • Malayalam: “ഡ്രാ നദി”
  • Mingrelian: “დრაა”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “واد درعة”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Drâa”
  • Norwegian: “Wadi Draa”
  • Persian: “رود درعه”
  • Polish: “Wadi Dara”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Drá”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Draa”
  • Russian: “Драа”
  • Russian: “Уэд-Драа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Draa”
  • Slovak: “Drá’”
  • Slovenian: “Draa”
  • Somali: “Webiga Draa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وادی درعه چایی”
  • Spanish: “Río Draa”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵙⵉⴼ ⵏ ⴷⵔⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Wadi Draa”
  • Swedish: “Drâa”
  • Tachelhit: “Asif n Dra”
  • Tachelhit: “Asif n Dṛɛa”
  • Tswana: “Noka ya Draa”
  • Turkish: “Draa Nehri”
  • Ukrainian: “Драа”
  • Urdu: “دریائے درعہ”
  • Uzbek: “Dra”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Draa”
  • Welsh: “Afon Draa”

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