The Ouergha River is a watercourse in Morocco that is tributary to the Sebou River.

Contents 1 History 2 Natural history 3 See also 4 Line notes 5 References

[edit] History

The Ouergha River was a key battle site in the French invasion of Morocco in the year 1924. The French, encouraging the fighting of native Moroccan tribes among each other, advanced with 12,000 troops to a crossing of the Ouergha and achieved a major victory here without a shot being fired.^[1]

[edit] Natural history

In the upper parts of the watershed within the Middle Atlas is the prehistoric range of the endangered primate Barbary macaque, which animal prehistorically had a much larger range in North Africa.^[2]

[edit] See also

• Baht River
• Middle Atlas

[edit] Line notes

[edit] References

• C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Barbary Macaque: Macaca sylvanus, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
• William A. Hoisington. 2005. Lyautey and the French conquest of Morocco

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