Boulaouane is a small town and rural commune in

El Jadida Province El Jadida Province () is a province of Morocco, located in the region of Casablanca-Settat. The province takes its name from the chief city of El Jadida. Its population in 2006 was 1,128,098. History The El Jadida province was created on 10 J ...

of the

Casablanca-Settat Casablanca-Settat () is one of the twelve administrative regions of Morocco. It covers an area of 20,166 km2 and recorded a population of 7,688,967 in th2024 Moroccan census 69% of which lived in urban areas. The capital of the region is Casabl ...

region of

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

. The town is near the

Oum Er-Rbia River Oum Er-Rbia () is a large, long and high-throughput river in central Morocco. The river is long. With an average water throughput of 105 m3/s, Oum Er-Rbia is the second-largest river in Morocco after the Sebou River. It originates in the M ...

and the fortress (Boulanouane Kasbah) overlooks that river.Boulaouane Kasbah - Fortress Overlooking the Wadi Oum er-Rbia River
Morocco.com, accessed January 2013 At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 14,404 people living in 2319 households.

History

The fortress or Kasbah that overlooks an important bend in the river was built by

Moulay Ismail Moulay Ismail Ibn Sharif (, – 22 March 1727) was a Sultan of Morocco from 1672 to 1727, as the second ruler of the 'Alawi dynasty. He was the seventh son of Moulay Sharif and was governor of the province of Fez and the north of Morocco from ...

in 1710. The towers command a view of the surrounding area.

References

Populated places in El Jadida Province Rural communes of Casablanca-Settat {{CasablancaSettat-geo-stub