Temara
title: "Temara" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-rabat-salé-kénitra", "skhirate-témara-prefecture", "municipalities-of-morocco", "prefectural-capitals-in-morocco"] topic_path: "general/populated-places-in-rabat-sale-kenitra" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temara" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | |
| native_name | تمارة |
| native_name_lang | ar |
| motto | |
| image_skyline | {{Photomontage |
| photo1a | Temara plage.JPG |
| photo2a | Harhoura Beach.jpg |
| photo2b | Temara01.jpg |
| photo3a | Wiki Loves Earth 2015 mai.JPG |
| size | 275 |
| spacing | 2 |
| color | transparent |
| border | 0 |
| pushpin_map | Morocco#Africa |
| pushpin_relief | 1 |
| pushpin_label_position | bottom |
| pushpin_mapsize | 300 |
| pushpin_map_caption | Location in Morocco |
| coordinates | |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | Morocco |
| subdivision_type1 | Region |
| subdivision_type2 | Prefecture |
| subdivision_name1 | Rabat-Salé-Kénitra |
| subdivision_name2 | Skhirate-Témara |
| established_title | |
| established_date | |
| leader_title1 | |
| area_total_km2 | |
| area_land_km2 | |
| elevation_footnotes | |
| elevation_ft | |
| population_total | 297,098 |
| population_rank | 12th in Morocco |
| population_as_of | 2024 |
| population_footnotes | |
| population_blank1_title | Ethnicities |
| population_density_blank1_sq_mi | |
| postal_code_type | |
| footnotes | |
| timezone | CET |
| utc_offset | +1 |
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Temara () is a coastal city in Morocco. It is located in the region of Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, directly south of Rabat on the Atlantic coast, in the suburban area of the capital. The city with 297,098 inhabitants as of 2024 is the capital of Skhirate-Témara Prefecture. It is twinned with Saint Germain en Laye, France. The city has beaches and a small pleasure port.
History
Temara was founded in the twelfth century (1130–1163) by Sultan Abd al-Mu'min, who built a mosque there and named it Massa. Five centuries later, Mulai Ismail built the current wall and made from Temara a ribat (casern) around Said mosque. Later, Mulay Abd ar-Rahman (1822–1859) and Mulay Abdul Aziz (1894–1908), completed (Kasbah of the Udayas) as religious and military camps. Temara also has a small network of coastal caves, notably El Harhoura 2 cave and El Mnasra cave (formerly known as the Smugglers' Cave), which are archaeological sites dating back 120,000 years, from the Aterian age.
Climate
Temara has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa). In winter there is more rainfall than in summer. The average annual temperature in Temara is 17.8 °C. About 505 mm of precipitation falls annually.
|metric first = Y |single line = Y
|Jan high C = 17.2 |Feb high C = 18.4 |Mar high C = 20.3 |Apr high C = 21.8 |May high C = 23.6 |Jun high C = 26.0 |Jul high C = 28.1 |Aug high C = 28.8 |Sep high C = 27.6 |Oct high C = 25.4 |Nov high C = 21.2 |Dec high C = 18.4
|Jan low C = 7.3 |Feb low C = 7.7 |Mar low C = 9.3 |Apr low C = 10.8 |May low C = 13.1 |Jun low C = 15.9 |Jul low C = 17.6 |Aug low C = 18.2 |Sep low C = 16.9 |Oct low C = 14.3 |Nov low C = 10.9 |Dec low C =8.4
|Jan precipitation mm = 75 |Feb precipitation mm = 66 |Mar precipitation mm = 61 |Apr precipitation mm = 53 |May precipitation mm = 21 |Jun precipitation mm = 5 |Jul precipitation mm = 0 |Aug precipitation mm = 1 |Sep precipitation mm = 7 |Oct precipitation mm = 41 |Nov precipitation mm = 74 |Dec precipitation mm = 101 |year precipitation mm= 505
|source = Climate-Data.org, Climate data |date=18 January 2018}}
Economy
Temara is close to Morocco's two main cities, Rabat, the capital, and economic center Casablanca.
Two main zones share the essence of the industrial units in the city of Temara. The first is in the direction of Casablanca, and, with a total area of 120 hectares, extensible to 300 Ha work 55 industrial units in this zone, contains the more clean industry sectors (textiles, packaging, printing, food). The second industrial zone is at the other end of town, in the direction of Rabat. It is the industrial zone Attasnia, which, with a total of 20 hectares, contains 23 industrial units (such as textiles, electronics, chemicals).
People
The population was at first constituted by Zaer tribes and different tribes of Oudayas (Military groups from different regions of Morocco that were established by the Sultan. They had the right to cultivate the land in exchange for their Military service to the Sultan). Now the population was diversified by all ethnicities in Morocco: Arabs and various Amazigh groups, Chleuhs and Hassanis).
Notable people
- Mourad Hdiouad - Moroccan football manager
- Hamza Igamane - Moroccan football player
References
References
- (8 April 2015). "POPULATION LÉGALE DES RÉGIONS, PROVINCES, PRÉFECTURES, MUNICIPALITÉS, ARRONDISSEMENTS ET COMMUNES DU ROYAUME D'APRÈS LES RÉSULTATS DU RGPH 2014". High Commission for Planning, Morocco.
- [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/MO/49/Temara.html Temara] Location information.
- "Temara Travel Guide".
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