River
Loukkos River
176 km from source to mouth · Morocco.
MoroccoFlows into Atlantic Ocean7th longest in Morocco
In numbers
Length
176km
Average flow
50m³/s
Basin
3,730km²
Drop
181m
from 176 m to -5 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
176 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmRifat 176 m
- 94 kmBarrage Oued El Makhazine27 km²
- 175 kmLarache136,505 people
- 176 kmAtlantic Oceanat -5 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Morocco
At the mouth it carries 50 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 50 seconds. It drops from 176 m to -5 m, 1.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,730 km², about the size of CV. 541,000 people live in it. Highest water: from January to February; lowest: from June to September. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 79% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- LaracheLargest city on its banks · 136,505 people
- Tangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 64 km from the cityCar hire at TNG airport (Tangier)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Loukkos River, month by month
Highest water: from January to February
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 2.2 m³/s in the lowest month to 110 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Loukkos River: the basin in numbers
3,727 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 541,000people live in the basin
- 146/km²people per km²
- 274maverage altitude of the basin
- 846mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 17.8°Caverage air temperature
- 8%protected areas
- 0.7%covered by lakes
- 0.8km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 52% Forest
- 49% Cropland
- 27% Pasture
- 3% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Loukkos River: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Loukkos River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
1beach at the mouth or on the banksCoastya
52mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Barrage Oued El Makhazinekm 6527km²
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Beaches (1)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Plage Ras Rmelkm 12122.4°C
Mountains at the source (52)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Jebel Touila9.1 km away
- Jebel Zourak3.1 km away
- Jebel Taouerda8.9 km away
- Jebel Nador11 km away
- Jebel Amalou13 km away
- Jebel Aranda13 km away
- Jebel Sougna10 km away
- Jebel Taasa11 km away
44 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Loukkos River in pictures
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Morocco458 km140 m³/s114 km awayGuadalquivir
Spain657 km160 m³/s178 km awayBou RegregMorocco240 km23 m³/s145 km awayGuadaleteSpain159 km20 m³/s154 km awayGuadiana
Portugal778 km70 m³/s247 km awayGuadalhorceSpain166 km8.0 m³/s223 km awayTinto RiverSpain100 km14 m³/s235 km awayOum Er-Rbia RiverMorocco556 km120 m³/s292 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q52598) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas, Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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