Ikkiss
Ikkiss is a small village in the High Atlas mountains of Morocco, in the Rhirhaia valley. It's just over 2000 m above sea level and has a population of about 600 people. There is a small school for the children from the surrounding villages and a local mosque.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 545 residents
- Description: human settlement in Morocco
- Also known as: “Ikis” and “Ikkis”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Imlil and Tacheddirt.
Imlil
Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Imlil is a small village in the high Atlas Mountains of Morocco. It is 1,800 metres above sea level. A portrait of Imlil and the problems and prospects of Morocco's mountain populations appeared in 1984 in the book by James A.
Tacheddirt
Photo: Lionfishy, Public domain.
Tacheddirt is a small village high up in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. It is the highest settlement in the Rhirhaia valley, about 2.5 miles further up than Ikkiss.
Ikkiss
- Categories: human settlement, douar in Morocco, and locality
- Location: Al Haouz Province, Marrakesh-Safi, High Atlas, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
31.1664° or 31° 9′ 59″ northLongitude
-7.8893° or 7° 53′ 22″ westPopulation
545Elevation
1,889 metres (6,198 feet)Open location code
8C3J5486+G7OpenStreetMap ID
node 2370477901OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2546445Wikidata ID
Q14218921
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Tachelhit—“Ikkiss” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إكيس”
- Dutch: “Ikkiss”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اكيس”
- French: “Ikkiss”
- Irish: “Ikkiss”
- Moroccan Arabic: “اكيس”
- Russian: “Иккис”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⴽⵉⵙ”
- Tachelhit: “Akis”
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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 “Ikkiss”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.