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City of Marrakech
Marrakech, known as the "Red City" or "Al Hamra" is a city in southwestern Morocco, near the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. With its 816.293 inhabitants, Marrakech is the 4th biggest city of the Kingdom characterized by a heterogeneous urban fabric, made up of traditional and modern types of habitat. The city is subjected to an arid semi continental climate with an annual average pluviometry of 250 ml and an annual evaporation average of 2500 mm.
Tourism is the pillar of the local economy with 2 million tourists and 5 million nights in 2006. The capacity increased by almost 16% per year from 2003 to 2006. The extension of this rate until 2010 would make the capacity pass to nearly 68400 beds. This strong increase in the capacity was also accompanied by a clear improvement in the occupancy rate. The latest figures of nights show that this tendency is continuing; the occupancy rate in ranked establishments for January and February of 2007 passed to 62%.
The geographical location of the City of Marrakech is the main cause of the scarcity of water resources. This given the water supply of the city is 300 million cubic metres of which 260 million is intended for the agricultural sector, the remainder (40 million) being reserved for drinking water. Nevertheless the real supply of the agricultural sector is only 120 million cubic metres. The 300 million cubic metres comes at a rate of 85,7% from surface waters, 9,39% from wells and collecting fields which provide only 2,64%.
The RADEEMA numbers 156000 customers whose largest consumer is the tourist sector.
Tourism is the pillar of the local economy with 2 million tourists and 5 million nights in 2006. The capacity increased by almost 16% per year from 2003 to 2006. The extension of this rate until 2010 would make the capacity pass to nearly 68400 beds. This strong increase in the capacity was also accompanied by a clear improvement in the occupancy rate. The latest figures of nights show that this tendency is continuing; the occupancy rate in ranked establishments for January and February of 2007 passed to 62%.
The geographical location of the City of Marrakech is the main cause of the scarcity of water resources. This given the water supply of the city is 300 million cubic metres of which 260 million is intended for the agricultural sector, the remainder (40 million) being reserved for drinking water. Nevertheless the real supply of the agricultural sector is only 120 million cubic metres. The 300 million cubic metres comes at a rate of 85,7% from surface waters, 9,39% from wells and collecting fields which provide only 2,64%.
The RADEEMA numbers 156000 customers whose largest consumer is the tourist sector.
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Last updated: 03.07.2008
